field phone

[eastgermansks]

I have a german field phone marked "standard elektrik lorenz" Is it east or west german? Thanks Luke.

[grenzflieger]

The German wikipedia tells me that it is West German. Till 1987 it was a sistercorporation of the American International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT). The HQ is in Stuttgart.

[Christophe]

SEL has been part of the Alcatel group until 1998, and at that date transfered to Thomson-CSF, now called Thales. They are still in Stuttgart.

Ch.

[grenzflieger]

That's interesting! Thales in the Netherlands is a large producer of weapons (missle guidance systems). Which puts the Netherlands in the top ten arms dealer of the world. I was involved in a peace protest in front of the factory back in my protesting days but this is very off topic of course...