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Oldcodger · 26th Jul 2019, 9:48 pm

Well said ,that man. Merlin said "the GPO 'police' ". To pass on the flavour-blokes on call were given a free phone. Just that , one phone. To stop the whole house being disturbed at night , some blokes wired an extension to the bedroom. Verboten said the IB ,and there were tales of Pulse echo test gear being used on
employees free phone lines to stop this .

26th Jul 2019, 9:48 pm	#12
Oldcodger Nonode Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: West Midlands, UK. Posts: 2,181	Re: Key for 1970's payphone ? Well said ,that man. Merlin said "the GPO 'police' ". To pass on the flavour-blokes on call were given a free phone. Just that , one phone. To stop the whole house being disturbed at night , some blokes wired an extension to the bedroom. Verboten said the IB ,and there were tales of Pulse echo test gear being used on employees free phone lines to stop this .