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Originally Posted by dazzlevision
The brown Statesman was the principal phone used by British Rail on their own internal national (Strowger) telephone network - embossed with the BR logo (sometimes unkindly referred to as “the arrows of indecision”!). Presumably bulk purchased in their thousands from the manufacturer.
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The BR version was a little different as they were fitted with bells rather than warbling ringers. Same applied to a GEC DTMF version which I found customers much preferred to the warblers..
BR ones came in both LD and MF versions but can't remembers seeing a switchable LD/MF version. I think the GEC version was switchable LD/MF and Earth / Timed Break Recall. I've got a New Zealand Post Office one which has numbers and letters from memory. Must dig it out.
The BR 'don't know which way we are going' logo was only on the first batch so I'm told by a Network Rail Telecoms manager.
We still use the brown BR ones on the Minor Railways ETD telephone network - they aren't that rare. I have several.