Continuing to clear out the Moonbase loft, I've found a whole bunch of vintage telephones. They include the classic American cream push-button you see in old TV cop shows, together with that icon of Seventies Britain, the Trimphone, totally redolent of Gerry Anderson's UFO. The best of the bunch is the cream Swedish upright Ericsson with its old school red dial hidden underneath. Retro-future or what!
Do you have a vintage phone readers?
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I am struggling to view Moonbase Central on my old PC. It takes forever to load. Consequently I can't leave comments in the normal way so I'm leaving them in the post, which is much easier for me to do. Your phones sound great guys. The Ericsson is my favourite, brimming with Sixties cool. I wonder what phones appeared in UFO?
In my neck of the woods the Ericsson is commonly known as the Cobra. Comes in many colours. Very collectible.
ReplyDeleteUsed to have the trimphone in exactly that colour. The dial glowed in the dark!
ReplyDeleteFor Christmas I got me one of those antique wall-hung phones with the handle on the right side that you had to crank, the mouthpiece in the front, and the earpiece hanging from the left side. It looks similar to this one currently on fleaBay:
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P.S. I never realized just how HEAVY these suckers were, the thing is a veritable boat anchor!!