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OscarFoxtrot · 16th Nov 2020, 6:50 pm

On manual exchanges the caller could press a button to call the operator in emergency. Ordinarily the caller had to put in his fourpennies and then the phone went on-hook and the operator answered.

16th Nov 2020, 6:50 pm	#4
OscarFoxtrot Heptode Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Edinburgh, UK. Posts: 805	Re: Virgin Media and old phones On manual exchanges the caller could press a button to call the operator in emergency. Ordinarily the caller had to put in his fourpennies and then the phone went on-hook and the operator answered.