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- Company: Gray Telephone & Pay Station
- Headquarters: Hartford, Connecticut
- Operated from: 1889-1948
From the 1912 Gray catalog (pdf)
Brief history
Making a secure and reliable pay phone turned out to be tough to do, and in 1889 William Gray got a patent for an innovative coin payment mechanism he was able to defend for decades. Gray distributed its pay stations through other companies including Western Electric, ultimately selling out to Automatic Electric.More information
- PDF of the 1912 Gray Telephone catalog
- Pay phone page on Telephone Tribute
- Pay station porcelain signs
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