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Originally Posted by Pellseinydd
And if you'd ever been on the third floor of a certain telephone shop that used to be in Cheltenham, you'd have seen boxes & boxes of green Bakelite parts for 200 type telephones made by Indian Telephone Industries in Bangalore. The parts are not up to the standard of the original GPO parts but unscrupulous folk have produced phones which they claim to be 'GPO' (Cheltenham shop never sold them as 'GPO' parts)
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I remember that shop well. its now a kebab house or something similar as far as I'm aware.
It used to be a treasure trove of old and new phones, and you could even buy complete telephone boxes if you wanted.
I used to go in there lots and buy bits n pieces ,and the prices were quite reasonable as I recall.