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Originally Posted by ex seismic
The bells would not have been polished in field service, not very tactical!
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The type 'F' was not a 'battlefield' telephone as such but would've been used in field-offices and not normally used beyond Divisional-HQ, so perhaps the shininess that may catch the enemy's eye would be masked by keeping the telephone part-withdrawn from the wooden box as far as the handset-cradle. The Type 'D's with their PTT switches and 'work-in-any-position' capability would be on the front line.
Any 'F's I have are chrome-gonged, with rather a rough matte finish on them. I tried polishing one as a kid, when I had a couple (£1.50 each I paid with new-fangled Decimal Currency!) but it didn't make much difference. I didn't have a buffing wheel, though.