Vintage WWII T-30 Throat Mic's

NOTE: We just recently cameacross a couple original straps that were in an unrelated lot of items and will be listing units WITH straps as sales. Please see our other listings.We have a number of them from different manufacturers ....if ordering multiples please let us invoice you for accurate shipping cost, as it is less per unit for several than for one.

PLEASE SPECIFY IF YOU WANT A PARTICULAR MANUFACTURER MODEL WHEN ORDERING EITHER BY SENDING US AN EMAIL OR A "NOTE TO SELLER" WITH YOUR PAYMENT WE WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO KEEP THE QUANTITIES AVAILABLE UPDATED IN THE LISTING. HOWEVER WE CANNOT GUARANTEE ANY PARTICULAR MAKE WILL BE AVAILABLE. BUYERS WITH PREFERENCES WILL BE TREATED ON A "FIRST COME FIRST SERVE" BASIS.

All are in Used "AS IS" Condition...all show signs of their 70+years of age (some rubber cracking, degradation, etc) Overall their condition is Fair to Good Vintage condition. Some makes appear to be synthetic rubber (?) others are natural rubber...please note that all natural and many synthetic rubbers degrades over time simply due to ozonedegradationfrom natural atmospheric ozone - seeOzonecracking on Wikipedia(unless it has been stored in a sealed airproof container or inert atmosphere or is a synthetic made after 1970 with stabilizer additives) and can result indimensionalchanges, micro-cracking, and embrittlement. We have not tested them and DO NOT guarantee their functionality though they may work.

Model Number Manufacturer Number Available (Updated Mar 24 '04)

T-30-A Western Electric Co., Inc 0 (sold out)
T-30-B Western Electric Co., Inc 0 (sold out)
T-30-C Micro Co. Univ CA. 0 (sold out)
T-30-D Kellogg 0 (sold out)
T-30-F Western Electric Co., Inc 1
T-30-G Western Electric Co., Inc 0 (sold out)
T-30-H Kellogg 1
T-30-MUniversal Microphone Co. 0 (sold out)
T-30-Q Western Electric Co., Inc. 1
T-30-RKellogg 0 (sold out)
T-30-S Universal Microphone Co. 2
T-30-V Shure Bros. 3

The T-30 throat microphone was the most commonly used tank microphone and standard of the US Army Air Forces in WWII. This carbon microphone was strapped around the wearer's neck, with the two 1-inch round pickups made of black rubber contacting the wearer's throat near his Adam's apple. It is anchored around the wearer's neck by an elastic strap. These pickups transmitted sound vibrations as the wearer spoke, and allowed voices to be heard over the background tank and battle noises. The T-30 microphone had a small two-pronged PL-291 plug, which was connected to a JK-48 jack on a SW-141 push-to-talk switch.

It was produced in over twenty variations by different manufacturers, those being indicated by a suffix code letter to the type designation:

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