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Terry Casey

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When STD coin box phones came in, they took threepenny bits, sixpences
and shillings. They soon blocked up the threepenny slot, so doubling the
cost of short local calls.

Soon?????

I lived in Grays in Essex. In 1955, the manual Tilbury
exchange (which was actually located in Grays!) was being
replaced by a new automatic exchange (and Grays got its own
exchange for the first time).

There was an exhibition in the main Post Office
demonstrating the new STD system we were to have, with
phones that you could use to dial up various test numbers in
various places in Britain.

Thus, I think, we were probably about the first exchange to
have the new STD phone boxes. They continued to accept
threepenny bits until around 1964/5, so around 10 years.

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Terry