 This was essentially a candlestick telephone that had its vertical tube-shaft shortened to about in height above the round base, and had a cradle on top of it, designed to hold a combined handset with both the receiver and the transmitter in the same unit.The cradle contained a plunger that operated the hookswitch in the base below.The A1 was only distributed for a very short time until the B-type telephone mount (model 102 telephone) was completed in 1927, a streamlined design that replaced the tube-shaft with a sculpted cone shape.