[TonyDuell]

My late grandmother had an Electrolux fridge, and I am pretty sure it was an absoption one. It was silent in operation from what I remember (as a fridge without a mechanical compressor would be). I remmeber the tiny icebox inside (that never really got cold enough for frozen food) There was a sort-of cupboard under it which she told me was to house a gas cylinider if it was used that way (although the one she had ran on electricity).

Another (unrelated to fridges, but releated to the Rabbit telephone) failure was Zonephone. From what I remember it was even more limited than Rabbit. If you had the handset you could make an outgoing call if you were close to a base station (installed in public bulidings, etc). But there was no home base station availble so you couldn't use it as a cordless telephone at home. I have one of the base stations for it (obviously I have never powered it up, I have no idea what frequency it would transmit on, or what uses that now), it's quite complex inside.