CHAPTER 1. THE FIRST CAR TELEPHONES, 1946-53 . INTRODUCTION. The first car telephones connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network in the United States were put into service in 1946, as a response to the growing mobility of the American population in the postwar years.

THE MOBILE TELEPHONE . IN BELL SYSTEM SERVICE, 1946-1993. These pages are a history of the car telephone as used by the Bell System and its affiliates from the beginnings in 1946 through the end of IMTS telephone product production, although many IMTS car telephone radio systems continued on the air through the late 1990’s and …

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I clicked on the British one – expecting to hear the ‘double ring’ – only to get the American single ring. We have double ring here – so I’d much prefer that – It’s also a lot more distinctive, as so many phones default to the American style.