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Collection of Post Office Telegram equipment and archive material.
Loud speaker telephone made by Executel.
Model 312 table telephone, made by Siemens Brothers & Co. Ltd, London, 1953 and installed for the Lord Mayor of Manchester, being the 250,000th telephone to be connected by the Post Office in the Manchester area.
Exchange operator's chair made by Dare-Inglis Products Ltd, 1961.
Gas mask made by Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd, 1938 with headphones attached and on a mannequin head.
Section of telephone cable with tree growing round it, made in around 1980.
Section of the Huddersfield-Leeds telegraph cable, c.1890.
Section of lead-covered polythene cable with 542 pairs, c. 1970.
Section of telephone cable.
Pair of steel-toe capped leather boots.
GPO jacket.
Telephone call office sign.
Section of telephone cable, made in around 1970.
Display section of fibre-optic cable mounted on a BT junction board, made by the Standard Telephone Co. and Pirelli, c.1985.
Section of early lead-sheathed telephone cable in wooden trunking, c1900.
Display cabinet with section of telephone cable.
Section of pressurised Hellermann telephone cable.
Section of Anglo-Swedish co-axial telephone/telegram cable.
