- Title:
- STC Deltaphone (GPO Trimphone)
- Object name(s):
- Telephone
- Brief description:
- STC Deltaphone (marketed as GPO Trimphone) telephone for public networks and STC Deltaline telephone for internal use, ABS plastic bodies and handsets with polycarbonate switching bars and dial finger plates and rubber feet.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Electrical appliances
- Associated concept:
- Plastic
- Associated concept:
- Product design
- Associated concept:
- Design Council Award Winner
- Credit line:
- Given by the Council of Industrial Design
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018LC0505/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 230
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 120
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 120
- Material:
- acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer
- Material:
- polycarbonate
- Material:
- rubber
- Object history note:
- Historical significance: Winner of Design Centre Award in 1966.
- Object name:
- Telephone
- Object number:
- CIRC.389-1967
- Object production date:
- 1966
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1966-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1966-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturer
- Object production person:
- Rowlands, Martyn
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- Great Britain
- Place association:
- designed
- Physical description:
- STC Deltaphone (marketed as GPO Trimphone) telephone for public networks and STC Deltaline telephone for internal use, ABS plastic bodies and handsets with polycarbonate switching bars and dial finger plates and rubber feet.
- Reproduction number:
- 2018LC0505
- Responsible department/section:
- FWK
- Technique:
- ABS plastic bodies and handsets with polycarbonate switching bars and dial finger plates and rubber feet.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/997e2579-592a-3286-933e-17da073c2fbc
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/997e2579-592a-3286-933e-17da073c2fbc, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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