Re: He should be proud that of that guy
The UK had the type 706: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GPO_706_Green_Telephone.JPG
That insert in the middle was used for a recall or bell disable switch or had 2 buttons for 2 line phones.
For internal (non PABX use) they ended up looking like THIS: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/GPO_706_HES.JPG
"When I were 'lad" these were the phones everyone had (if they didn't have the black bakelite versions) in areas where the phones weren't crank handled and answered by a manual operator. They only stopped being standard issue in the mid 1980s - which curiously enough was also when I was involved in removing the last of the aforementioned crank handled phones and party lines from service. (The standard issue became the BT Viscount aka "pert", which have proven to be 20 times as reliable as anything else since, despite costing less than £3 each when new - achieved by buying 500,000 of them in only 2 colours - reputed to be an ordering typo/off by one error)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
