B-AL-01 Three Panel Aluminium Phone Booth

Name Three Panel Aluminium Phone Booth Date 1967 Manufacturer PMG Usage Public call box Notes First Australian Aluminium boothSee more notes below. Further notes The late 1960’s saw experiments with the first aluminium cabinet (Fig.23) to beadopted. This cabinet underwent basic design changes in recent years and the curvedroof has been abandoned in favour of…

NameThree Panel Aluminium Phone Booth
Date1967
ManufacturerPMG
UsagePublic call box
NotesFirst Australian Aluminium booth
See more notes below.
Further notes
The late 1960’s saw experiments with the first aluminium cabinet (Fig.23) to be
adopted. This cabinet underwent basic design changes in recent years and the curved
roof has been abandoned in favour of the more functional flat roof.
With the establishment of Telecom Australia in 1976, which took responsibility in
this area from the Australian Post Office, Telecommunications Division, the red livery
of cabinets was abandoned in favour of Telecom Gold, and interiors of existing
wooden cabinets to be recoloured gold dapled with orange. The Coin Telephone No.3
programme will mean the replacement of all wooden cabinets in NSW with the modern
aluminium type by the early 1980’s.
All of the types of cabinets depicted were used in NSW and some were peculiar only
to NSW, whilst other states had types which were only used locally and thus not seen
here.
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