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Originally Posted by ThePillenwerfer
A relative of mine didn't have a telephone until the late 1970s and when one was installed she was given the choice of ivory or black. She chose the former.
I saw a few green ones in the wild and an elderly neighbour, who never went onto plugs and sockets, retained an ivory, a red and a green 706L well into the 1990s. They were the only Ls I recall seeing in service as Sheffield wasn't a director area so how she ended-up with those I've no idea.
We had a black 746, and I think it was the early body-style, until 1992.
I don't recall seeing any blue ones.
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All Tele 706's had a lettered external dial ring until after the mid 1960's as the letters were needed for 'Subscriber Trunk Dialling' where the STD code consisted of the 'access' digit 0 followed by two letters and one or more numerical digits - hence Chester was 0CH 4 , Leeds 0LE 2 etc..
The change to 'all figure numbering' started in the mid-1960's and the letters in the STD codes vanished c1966 with the letters in Director areas the year later. A lot of the modern Tele 746's have reproduction letter ring around the outside of the dial to make them more 'attractive' to purchasers who aren't interested in accuracy. A lot of 700 Teles now being sold aren't in original condition having been rebuilt to make them more attractive.