UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum - View Single Post - GPO 706, 746 etc. Did subscribers get to choose their colour ?

Sparks · 26th Jun 2020, 10:03 pm

The reason I ask is when I visited other people's houses in the 70s and early 80s, I only remember seeing grey or ivory telephones. One of my friends' parents only had an ivory 741 on the kitchen wall. Nothing in the hall or living room. I wonder if they had any say in that ? Another friend, not far away, had a grey table phone but I'm fairly certain it wasn't even a GPO model - probably Swedish or French! As for us, we were a bit more fortunate as our one and only telephone was a green 706 but it had a rubber foot missing all the time we had it. When it conked out, it was replaced by a 746 in...ivory. I only ever saw one blue and one yellow table phone in people's houses, never a red or black. Or brown.

Who got all the red and black telephones, and the blues and yellows ? Mysterious.

26th Jun 2020, 10:03 pm	#1
Sparks Heptode Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 597	GPO 706, 746 etc. Did subscribers get to choose their colour ? The reason I ask is when I visited other people's houses in the 70s and early 80s, I only remember seeing grey or ivory telephones. One of my friends' parents only had an ivory 741 on the kitchen wall. Nothing in the hall or living room. I wonder if they had any say in that ? Another friend, not far away, had a grey table phone but I'm fairly certain it wasn't even a GPO model - probably Swedish or French! As for us, we were a bit more fortunate as our one and only telephone was a green 706 but it had a rubber foot missing all the time we had it. When it conked out, it was replaced by a 746 in...ivory. I only ever saw one blue and one yellow table phone in people's houses, never a red or black. Or brown. Who got all the red and black telephones, and the blues and yellows ? Mysterious.