The portable telephone set
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The portable telephone set
1963. USSR. Krasnaya Zarya
TAI-43-R Field Telephone. Designed to provide telephone service in the field. The TAI-43 belonged to a class of LB system field telephone (i.e. with local battery, which was located inside). The machine came in a wooden box. The capsule microphone had a voltage of 1.5V. The weight of the unit with battery was 4.6 kg.
The TAI-43 was developed by the Science and Research Institute of Communications of the Red Army (NIIIS KA) under the leadership O.I. Repina, who, after the war, also led the development of the next basic Soviet army field telephone, the TA-57.
According to the recollections of the retired WWII Lieutenant General Y.A.Tolmachev, at the beginning of the war our experts conducted intensive studies of captured German field telephones (e.g. the FF-33 of 1933) including during wartime. Not surprisingly, the new Soviet field telephone TAI-43 of 1943 had much in common with the captured German FF-33.
Beginning in 1943 and until the end of World War II, the TAI-43 devices were produced in wooden boxes khaki in colour. The TAI-43 was produced in brown Bakelite only after the war and after the capture of a German reparations factory (which made the FF-33 field telephone). The FF-33 had already been produced in its Bakelite body since 1933.
1963. USSR. Krasnaya Zarya
TAI-43-R Field Telephone. Designed to provide telephone service in the field. The TAI-43 belonged to a class of LB system field telephone (i.e. with local battery, which was located inside). The machine came in a wooden box. The capsule microphone had a voltage of 1.5V. The weight of the unit with battery was 4.6 kg.
The TAI-43 was developed by the Science and Research Institute of Communications of the Red Army (NIIIS KA) under the leadership O.I. Repina, who, after the war, also led the development of the next basic Soviet army field telephone, the TA-57.
According to the recollections of the retired WWII Lieutenant General Y.A.Tolmachev, at the beginning of the war our experts conducted intensive studies of captured German field telephones (e.g. the FF-33 of 1933) including during wartime. Not surprisingly, the new Soviet field telephone TAI-43 of 1943 had much in common with the captured German FF-33.
Beginning in 1943 and until the end of World War II, the TAI-43 devices were produced in wooden boxes khaki in colour. The TAI-43 was produced in brown Bakelite only after the war and after the capture of a German reparations factory (which made the FF-33 field telephone). The FF-33 had already been produced in its Bakelite body since 1933.
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