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Old 20th Sep 2019, 10:02 am   #6
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Tetrode
 
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK.
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Default Re: GPO Bakelite Phones - the end?

I was apprenticed to the GPO in 1967 and after training, became a T2A on subs app and line maintenance.
All the bakelite phones I encountered were black and it was only when we got a colour television in the late seventies that I discovered the 200 type phones came in a range of colours!
So I'm wondering if (at some point in the phasing out process) only the black 200s were sent to wipe-up and people with posh coloured bakelite phones were offered 700 types as replacements if beyond repair due to damage?
This might explain my experience.
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