Anybody that finds Bell, Western Electric payphone parts

Originally Posted by ScrapperNJ26

Bell pay phone parts

You guys and gals are going to get the condensed version of this story, a bit of trivia.



The telephone company's don't even trust their own coin box collectors, each driver has a empty box;s to replace the coin box pulled which by the way automatically closes with a seal before leaving the lock box bay.

Once the fresh empty box is inserted into the bay the key used to remove the full coin box will not release the new box. The key for this set of locks is out on an undisclosed route with another driver.

The routine changing of the lock box's and keys also prevents anyone fro stealing a phone booth then cutting their own key, chasing all over the city to find the batch of phones that new key fits would be a waste of time

My brother used to be a coin box collector, I'm told that when the bean counters got the full box's they had well over $300.00 in them.