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3rd Apr 2020, 2:06 pm | #41 |
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Re: Busy, wait, enter lamps for the outside of a manager's office or headmaster's stu
"Controlled area Raindiation on" sorry!
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3rd Apr 2020, 3:27 pm | #42 |
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Re: Busy, wait, enter lamps for the outside of a manager's office or headmaster's stu
The forum software seems to have inverted the picture
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3rd Apr 2020, 3:48 pm | #43 |
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Re: Busy, wait, enter lamps for the outside of a manager's office or headmaster's stu
Here is a version that doesn't involve hanging from the rafters.
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Re: Busy, wait, enter lamps for the outside of a manager's office or headmaster's stu
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Woolworths in Southport had those. I remember a friend who did Saturday work there explaining what the various combinations of lights signified. The store was refurbished to remove items such as the large rectangular art deco clocks and the gas light fittings but the lights remained on the walls painted over until the store finally closed. The headmaster at my grammar school had a set outside his office door. They were just coloured without any explanation and the red one was on for a great deal of time. They were in a very old looking polished wooden box rather like the ones used for pre-war GPO bellsets. Thinking about it I wonder whether they had been supplied by the GPO when phones were first installed in the school which was built in the early part of the 20th century
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Just spotted your message about the headmasters indicators! Missed it at the time. Don’t suppose they were still available? Thank you! |
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11th May 2020, 3:10 pm | #47 |
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Re: Busy, wait, enter lamps for the outside of a manager's office or headmaster's stu
I picked up two signs many years ago but sadly no controller. They're in my pile of things I like but have no idea what I'll ever do with.
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18th May 2020, 12:44 pm | #48 |
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Re: Busy, wait, enter lamps for the outside of a manager's office or headmaster's stu
I remember a set like the one on the right of the second picture. Exactly the same as that outside the Headmaster's office at primary school forty years back. He didn't have his telephones on his desk but on a coffee table several feet from his desk, meaning he almost always had to get up to answer the phone. Lovely chap but mildly eccentric.
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