G'morning Michiel, 

 MvV> Interesting. So where was the zero located? I guess next to
 MvV> the 1, so that just as it does here it actually generates
 MvV> 10 pulses.

I went and dug out an old dialler phone, and you're right - it 
runs clock-wise 0-9 with the 0 at 6 o'clock.

The P&T supplied all phones in NZ,  and when people started 
sneaking in foreign devices they had to subtract each digit of the 
required phone number from 10 before dialling the inverted number.

And our emergency number was 111 because 999 was too-easily 
generated by babes and accidents as three single pulses.

In those days,  I once made a phone call from an Army 10 line 
field exchange sitting in a bunker in our Waiouru desert, through 
a P&T rural exchange to the international exchange up in Auckland, 
across the Tasman Sea to Australian exchanges to Perth.  At call's 
end, I gleefully cranked the generator handle to signal 
termination - and listened with awe to all these exchanges' rotary 
relays cutting the circuit... oh, the power....

:-))
 
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