Well, cannot be wall-mounted like the one in your picture but those phones did get wall-mounted in slightly different shape. 1000038469
Well, cannot be wall-mounted like the one in your picture but those phones did get wall-mounted in slightly different shape. 1000038469
hperrin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Interesting. I’ve never seen a phone like that. Usually the wall mounted versions of the Model 500 had a vertical mount for the handset in the front of the base. This one looks like a different company that Western Electric though. You’ve got me curious enough I feel like I’m about to go down a rabbit hole.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not just a U.K. company, the GPO were the General Post Office and ran the entire phone network and more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Oh, I was not aware you are into this as a collector, now I feel honored to be able to show you something new!
I live in Europe, not the UK though, so maybe that explains why these are familiar to me. Although another user said they saw one in Ohio.
Indie59@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We had a yellow one like that hanging on our kitchen wall in Ohio, so they were definitely around.