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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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