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Overview As a public service, Post Office Telephones played a role in educating everyone about the use of the telephone, the emerging technology, and developments behind it all. It liked to 'showcase' what was happening and to display key features of both new and old technology. User Guides
A Post Office telecommunications museum was established in Taunton in 1957. And there were other official museums dotted about the UK as Telephone Areas set up their own collections. Telephone engineers who were part of the IPOEE (Institute of Post Office Electrical Engineers) built up unofficial local collections of telecom history.
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