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Old 26th Jun 2020, 10:52 pm   #5
emeritus
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK.
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Default Re: GPO 706, 746 etc. Did subscribers get to choose their colour ?

When I had the phone installed circa 1977, my house already had a drop wire and terminal block but no phone. I was offered a choice of colours and chose a black one. When i got married and moved house, a green phone was already installed (an earler model without the hand grip between the on hook switches). The bell stopped working a few years later (the shaft of the hammer broke). The BT engineer said we could have a replacement wired-in dial phone, or he could fit a modern socket and give us a push button phone, no extra charge. We chose the latter, and he let us keep the broken phone, which became a silent extension for the bedroom.
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