Vintage Western Electric Model 100F Amplifier/Loud Speaker Early 1930′s WORKING
Saturday, October 18th, 2025


This Tube Combo Amplifier is in working Condition. The audio input had raw wires so i attached an RCA input on there. Everything else is Original Parts. If you live outside the Lower 48 U. The Western Electric Model 100E was not a standard telephone model. It was part of a loud speaker set used for railway train dispatching in the 1930s. The number “100E” refers to a specific component within a more complex telephone system, not a standalone consumer telephone. Western Electric 100-series loudspeaker set. Was a component of telephone systems used in railway dispatching. Information from a 1934 Western Electric document describes the railway system and the components, including the. 100E loud speaker set. The loud speaker was used for way station selector equipment on train dispatching telephone systems. The system included selector calling equipment, telephones, desk set boxes, the. A 1934 document titled. Railway Train Dispatching Telephone Systems. By Western Electric provides technical information about the entire system. For context, it is helpful to distinguish the industrial 100E loudspeaker from the 100-series consumer desk telephones, which were the first to use a single handset. The 100-series desk telephones were a progression from candlestick phones and were known for their one-piece handset (combining the transmitter and receiver). The handset was known as the “French” handset. Early models included the Type A handset mounting (1927), followed by the Type B (1927), which had a round base. The Type B was later replaced by the more stable, oval-based Type D, or 202-series, telephones around 1930. The 100-series telephones initially used a side-tone circuit, which was a later distinction from the 200-series phones that used an anti-sidetone circuit.



























