NEW COLOURED TELEPHONES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29330, 8 October 1960, Page 16

NEW COLOURED TELEPHONES

Popularity In City Coloured telephones are becoming popular in Christchurch, about-1000 orders for them having been placed with the Post Office in the last three months. They'are now available in six colours—lacquer red. topaz yellow, a metallic blue, two-tone green, two-tone grey, and ivory. Not all colours are available at the moment of order, but small quantities of each colour are drriving progressively from overseas. When the colour chosen was not immediately available to a subscriber when the time came to make the installation, the Post Office would install a telephone of another colour until the required shadp was available, said the manager of .the Poet Office’s commercial branch (Mr S. J. V. Rowe) yesterday. In areas where new telephone installations were being made, the Post Office gave a new Subscriber the option of choosing a coloured telephone, said Mr Rower Existing subscribers could have their present telephones replaced with a coloured model on payment of a replacement fee of £3. Also available to new or existing subscribers is the new-style, streamlined ericofon, a one-piece telephone of Swedish design, which has a dial beneath the base, and rings with a quiet buzzer instead of a bell. The ericofon is available in green, grey, and ivory, and is especially suitable for bedroom use or in rooms of contemporary styling.