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Old 21st Nov 2017, 8:31 pm   #20
Pellseinydd
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Default Re: Southampton - number of digits on dial label in 1958

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Originally Posted by ThePillenwerfer View Post
I'd expect the label to look like as below.

As for the number of figures, it'd probably be five. Ian's our numbering expert though.
That label ('Label 160')was only used in areas which had a 999 facility. And not everywhere had a 999 facility in 1958 but Southampton did.

I have a telephone from an exchange that only went into service in March 1976 and they didn't get the 999 service until that late! It has a grey '700' style 'Label 486' which said 'In case of Emergency Dial 0' as it predates that particular 'new' exchange.

I have an STD Dialling Code book specific for the exchange dated March 1976 - the exchange only had eight lines on it at that time and had only reached 15 lines when it closed in December 1991 and the lines moved onto another exchange 10 miles or so away. Got to be a rare code book? I only know of one other copy.

There were still a number of exchanges which didn't get the 999 service until some time between March 1976 and 1977 !

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