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Originally Posted by Pellseinydd
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Originally Posted by McMurdo
There was a BT 'inphone' roadshow bringing the delights of the system to the general public. I went to the one at Trentham Gardens (not far from Stone/Yarnfield) and had a merry time playing with all sorts of new phones, vintage and new PABXs/PBXs, vintage telephones etc, all with free outside line access and lots of buttons to play with. It was the first time I heard MF dialling and it was rather exciting.
Wasn't it the Ambassador that had the bell ringer? Very similar to the Statesman but with a deeper body.
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I know that GEC produced a 'Statesman' style telephone but with a bell - KT1 possibly. I'll see if I can find any wholesalers catalogues with it in.
The British Rail 'Statesman' style telephones definitely have a bell fitted.
Can't find any mention of an Ambassador with a bell mentioned in the Ratebook/Vocabulary of Engineering Stores for 1983. Nor does Bob Freshwater website make any mention of a version of the Ambassador with a bell. But that doesn't mean there wasn't a version but may have been a 'non-BT' version. |
Definitely got an Ambassador with bells here, with BT branding. There was even a rotary dial variant.