Rotary dial local battery telephones?

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I can't find an image now, but I remember seeing local battey telephones, but with rotary dial. No, they wheren't linmen's phones. They where universal telephones (could be used in any kind of landline) or did there where ever automatic telephone exchanges that needed an magneto action in order to make the connection between the subsrciber and the exchange?