21st May 2020, 8:45 am
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Heptode
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Winchester, Hampshire, UK.
Posts: 638
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Re: GPO Wall telephones - how was the line cord installed before plug and socket ?
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Originally Posted by Oldcodger
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Originally Posted by John M0GLN
As well as being easiest for GPO man I think the hallway could have been the most convenient place to make or take calls, if your family or friends were all sat in the lounge talking or watching TV and the phone rang could you ask everyone to go and wait in another room while you were taking the call.
Regards installation when we had our first phone installed nearly 50 years ago we wanted it in the kitchen at the rear of the house, we didn't want wire all along the skirting boards so I asked the GPO man if I drilled a hole in the floor board by the front door and I went under the floor, would he feed the wire through so I could take it along to re-appear in the kitchen, he was quite happy with that, probably easier for him.
John
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Had a similar thing about 20+ years ago in present house. Swimbo had decided on placement of master socket, on the other side of the lounge door. Swimbo told me that BT bloke jaw dropped a lot when she told him. But he perked up when she suggested a route. In through airvent and picked up via a trap in the floor to be fished to position of master. I was informed that he was a bit perturbed, till she told him I was ex firm and had worked out an easy route , and then she asked if he liked tea or coffee. |
I’ve always found tea and coffee to be the best lubricant in any situation.
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