Feldfernsprecher 33 - Field Telephone 33

[mrfarb]

Looking at the 45 dated one it has a few broken connections. I have no need to use it, I'd buy another early one if I wanted a set to play with.

 

[gummipuppe]

More interesting pictures....

 

[bjarne]

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More interesting pictures....

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Interesting ss soldier working with an 10 liner...nice picture

 

[gummipuppe]

Interesting ss soldier working with an 10 liner...nice picture

Thanks. Just goes to show you that switchboards weren't always situated on tables in clean surroundings back at division headquarters.

 

[bjarne]

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Thanks. Just goes to show you that switchboards weren't always situated on tables in clean surroundings back at division headquarters.

i may buy one in near future,cool thing

 

[gummipuppe]

i may buy one in near future,cool thing

They are most cool. While you're at it, buy two, then you can actually hook them together and use them. Make sure you post photos when you get them.

 

[gummipuppe]

I just found these photos of the headset/throat mic attachment for the FF 33:

 

[bjarne]

Very nice.............

another thing on my wish list
By the way i got my tan field phone to work with an d battery

 

[gummipuppe]

another thing on my wish list
By the way i got my tan field phone to work with an d battery

How cool is that? After 70 years, and going through battle, these things still work. I am lucky if I can get three or four years out of a modern phone.

I am definitely going to have to get the headset/throat mic setup. Switchboard too.

Another picture showing reenactors with an FF 33 and switchboard:

 

[jhv 41]

These are pretty cool. Found a site with some great pics:

http://www.laud.no/ww2/telefon/index.htm

 

[gummipuppe]

These are pretty cool. Found a site with some great pics:

http://www.laud.no/ww2/telefon/index.htm

I gotta get something like this. I understand that the rotary dial module could still be used to tie the FF 33 to our current telephone system in the US.

 

[gummipuppe]

Field Telephone Sign

Here's a cool example, complete with what appears to be a bullet hole:

 

[bjarne]

Look what i got today

It works and lots of fun three more Feldfernsprecher 33 on the way

 

[gummipuppe]

You are so lucky. I would love to have a switchboard like that.

 

[bjarne]

thanks..........

You are so lucky. I would love to have a switchboard like that.

you started it!!! so now i am going all in

 

[gummipuppe]

While you are waiting for your telephones to arrive, here are more photos to look at:

Stringing telephone wire...

FF 33 used by the Deutsche Rotes Kreuz (not sure if it's authentic)...

 

[bjarne]

Field Telephone 33(Kriegsmarine)

Got this one today german navy(Yellow stripe on lable)
Notice the code N.V.K

Guess what it stands for!!!

 

[gummipuppe]

Got this one today german navy(Yellow stripe on lable)
Notice the code N.V.K

Guess what it stands for!!!

Interesting. I thought they all had the green stripe that signifies a design difference between the first generation FF 33 and FF 33 made after about 1938. This helped prevent using incompatible components in the two designs. Did different branches of service each have their own color?

With regard to this:

What is the purpose for the thing below the sling connector?

Does NVK have anything to do with the Norwegian navy? I have no clue.

 

[bjarne]

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this is what N.V.K stands for

The headquarters of the NVA was still based in Kiel and moved about 1938 to a newly built, and
huge, compound in Kiel-Dietrichsdorf. The NVA organisation also changed their organisation
and command structure and got the new designation “
N
achrichtenmittel
v
ersuchs
k
ommando” or
NVK. (communication research command)

You can read about this navy telefon in that online book you linked too!
Lots of great stuff in that book

 

[gummipuppe]

Ah, yes. It is in the book. It covered a socket for a special cord.

Didn't the Nachrichtenmittel Versuchs Kommando oversee radar and sonar research and development projects for the Kreigsmarine?

Really nice find.