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Old 20th Nov 2017, 9:44 pm   #6
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Default Re: Southampton - number of digits on dial label in 1958

I believe that the red labels were introduced in 1952. Of course a telephone could have still had an old one in 1958.

Things weren't always done as they should be. Ever since I can remember we had a black 746 telephone but it had a red label. Obviously the engineer who fitted the new 'phone must have simply re-used the label off the old one.

As for the number of figures it's quite possible that this varied within Southampton. I live in Sheffield and can recall a time when this had a mixture of six and five digit numbers.
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