How come this clearly American style of desk furniture is carrying a UK GPO badge on it?
Does no one know nuffin no more?
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Gavin Scott
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Not a mobile, just a good ol' fashioned desk phone.
How come this clearly American style of desk furniture is carrying a UK GPO badge on it?
Does no one know nuffin no more?
How come this clearly American style of desk furniture is carrying a UK GPO badge on it?
Does no one know nuffin no more?
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Nick Harvey
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Even the dial label looks pretty close to the original.
But the dear old GPO would never have offered a phone with a plug on the end of the handset cord. Mr Joseph Public was *never* trusted with anything that he could unplug back in those days.
But the dear old GPO would never have offered a phone with a plug on the end of the handset cord. Mr Joseph Public was *never* trusted with anything that he could unplug back in those days.
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That (the label design) is the only bit that is correct stylistically. The rest could have come from the set of Cagney and Lacey.
Which is what I wanted.
Which is what I wanted.
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I was always amazed that the Americans had plug-in phones years and years before we did over here. The GPO were scared somebody would electrocute themselves on 50 volts DC, or worse still, 75 volts AC ringing current.
I had one of the first plugs and sockets in this area for a "Post Office Viewdata" terminal, the forerunner of the full Prestel service. It was a huge "Plug 505" and "Socket 96a" system that they had to send an engineer from Bristol to install because none of the local guys understood how to wire it up.
Them were the days!
I had one of the first plugs and sockets in this area for a "Post Office Viewdata" terminal, the forerunner of the full Prestel service. It was a huge "Plug 505" and "Socket 96a" system that they had to send an engineer from Bristol to install because none of the local guys understood how to wire it up.
Them were the days!