| Name | Precast “Pipe-Type” Concrete Cabinet |
| Date | 1927 |
| Manufacturer | PMG |
| Usage | Public call box |
| Link | South African concrete phone booth 1920s. For some reason the South African ones were much cuter and popular and a number have survived. New Zealand concrete phone box |
Above- concrete phone box outside Customs House in Circular Quay in Sydney circa 1930. This was here for a while and features in many photos of the era.
Development of the Precast “Pipe-Type” Concrete Cabinet
| Another innovation adopted in 1927 (Fig.7) was the precast ‘Pipe Type’ concrete cabinet with wooden door and concrete floor. The cabinet itself was in fact made from cylindrical precast pipe with two small half length windows. These cabinets featured precast concrete roofs, some of which were flat with small conical metal ventilators in the centre, whilst others were conical and ornamented to represent small roofing tiles. Source- (with thanks to) History of the telephone in New South Wales / by Jim Bateman [Croydon, N.S.W.] : J. Bateman, 1980 ISBN: 0959478701 |
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