‘School telephone’ in polished wood case, 1921-1940
- Made:
- 1921-1940 in United Kingdom
- maker:
- General Post Office
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This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
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This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
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'School telephone' in polished wood case FH33-234 no.222, General Post Office, British, 1921-1940.
During the first
Science Museum Group Collection
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'School telephone' in polished wood case FH33-234 no.222, General Post Office, British, 1921-1940.
During the first
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
'School telephone' in polished wood case FH33-234 no.222, General Post Office, British, 1921-1940.
During the first
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
'School telephone' in polished wood case FH33-234 no.222, General Post Office, British, 1921-1940.
During the first
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
'School telephone' in polished wood case FH33-234 no.222, General Post Office, British, 1921-1940.
During the first
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
'School telephone' in polished wood case FH33-234 no.222, General Post Office, British, 1921-1940.
During the first
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
School telephone in polished wood case, 1921-1940. Three quarter front view on grey background.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
School telephone in polished wood case, 1921-1940. Front view on grey background.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
School telephone in polished wood case, 1921-1940. Detail view on grey background.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
'School telephone' in polished wood case, FH33-234 no.222, made by the General Post Office, British, 1921-1940.
During the first half of the twentieth century the British Post Office undertook many campaigns to promote the use of telephones. This ‘opened-out’ telephone would have been one of a pair taken round to schools to show pupils how telephones worked and to encourage familiarity in handling them. It was intended to introduce schoolchildren and others to the new automatic telephone system being introduced in the 1930s. It was entirely self contained so did not need a subscriber's line to function.
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Details
- Category:
- Telecommunications
- Object Number:
- 2004-106
- Materials:
- metal (unknown), paper (fibre product) and wood (unidentified)
- taxonomy:
-
- component - object
- credit:
- Donated by BT Heritage and Archives
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