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British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Post Office: Telephones, Overseas

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 87 Series

Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Title: Post Office: Telephones, Overseas

Date(s): 1877-1938

Level of description: Series

Extent: 12 files

Name of creator(s):

No further information available

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Overseas telephonic communication in its early days was mainly confined to services between London and Paris, the North of France, Brussels and Antwerp. The first telephone cable across the Channel was laid in 1891. During the early 1920s services were gradually extended to other European and Scandinavian countries. In 1927 a radio-telephone service was opened between Britain and the United States. The overseas services were developed rapidly during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and communications soon extended to Australia, Canada, South America, Spain, Italy, etc.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This series consists of a few specimen agreements between Britain and other countries for the establishment of an overseas telephone service, and a collection of reports on various overseas telephone systems.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

Public Record

Conditions governing reproduction:

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Further information may also be found in POST 83: Telegraphs, Overseas, and POST 76: Engineering Department and in the minutes paper series: POST 30 and 33.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry checked by Barbara Ball