PMG Temperate Style Phone Booth

PMG Temperate Style Phone Booth

1950s Temperate style booth designed to be less maintenance than the previous Flag Type. Used fashionable glass louvres and asbestos domed roof (based on Soanian dome British roof)

Name	Temperate Style Phone Booth
Date	1956-1980
Manufacturer	PMG Sydney Workshops
Usage	Public call box Temperate Louvre-Glazed Wooden Cabinet
Notes	See below

TEMPERATE Westmoreland Street Glebe, 1970s

Devlopment of the Temperate Style Phone Booth

In1956 Sydney Workshops adopted another design as standard, known as the Temperate style (Fig.22), this cabinet was built of timber but featured louvre glazing as opposed to fixed glass glazing and an asbestos cement roof. Again the wooden floor was omitted and the cabinet mounted on four metal angle brackets one and a half inches above the concrete floor base. Durable timber was specified, and lighting and acoustics improved with a plush-fitting and acoustic lining in the ceiling. The louvre glazing provided most of the ventilation, and was assisted by ventilation through the ceiling and under the gap between sides and floor. Inside colour for both ‘Flag’ and ‘Temperate’ styles was light green dappled dark green.

Source- (with thanks to)
History of the telephone in New South Wales / by Jim Bateman
[Croydon, N.S.W.] : J. Bateman, 1980 ISBN: 0959478701