Red telephone box
In the UK, the first telephone booths were (English telephone booth, telephone box ) K1 made of concrete and covered with a wooden door. The British telephone box is to be distinguished from the police cell.
History
The now so familiar red telephone boxes (type K2) were designed in 1924 as part of a design competition by the British architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott for the British postal authority. He won the competition with a classic design with a domed roof, which is geared to that of the Mausoleum of Sir John Soane. The Scott held in silver model was painted red by the authority, so that one could see well the cells even from a distance. The former production costs were 50 British pounds. The competition brief called for maximum cost of 40 pounds. Since the high cost and dimensions for general use were too large (90 cm × 90 cm at the base and a height of 2.51 m, weight 750 kg) were approximately 1500 pieces procured and installed only in London.
In 1929, the British postal authority came to Scott zoom with a request to design on the basis of low-cost, smaller model K1 and K2 model with the beautiful design a new model. The result was the Model K3, from the during the next six years, 12,000 units were set up.
In 1936, Scott modified the model K2 on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of King George V to the model K6, called Jubilee kiosk. The king, however, died before he got to see one finished phone booth. From the type K6 until the late 1930s, a further 20,000 piece throughout the Kingdom have been established. In rural areas, the red color could vary upon request. So the colors were green, yellow, white and gray ( battleship gray) are chosen so as not to disturb the harmony of colors. The red signal color should promote in the cities, the rapid recognition, so that a possible cry for help - could be implemented quickly - also of the patrolmen. 1939 was followed by an improved against vandalism Mark II version. After the accession to the throne in 1953 by Queen Elizabeth II, Georg crown was modified in the roof of the cell phone.
The K6 telephone boxes were from five different farms produced: Carron Foundry, Lion Foundry, Steven McDowall, Macfarlane (also known as Saracen Foundry ) and Bratt Colbran.
In 1962, a few prototypes of the type K7 were and are supplemented by the type K8 from 1968. The recent red telephone box has a modern design and is made of iron instead of aluminum. Later, the models KX100, KX200, KX300, KX410, KX420, KX plus, plus internet and KX520 KX followed. All models away from the typical red color and the box design. In 2007, British Telecom designed together with JCDecaux a new phone column, type ST6. The phone booth was on one side of a covered but otherwise open telephone and advertising space on the back. The idea was to finance the running costs of the phone with the advertising revenue. The ST6 was introduced in mid-2007.
2002 in the UK were more than 90,000 payphones in operation, 2012, this number had fallen to 51,500.
In the UK, all remaining historic telephone booths as to protected end buildings are registered through a private initiative since February 2001. The table shows the previously recognized phone cell types, their introduction, the designers, their original number and the number of listed building cell ensembles:
On behalf of the British Telecom ( BT) sold the venturer X2 Connect, 2012, decommissioned red telephone boxes that are already restored copies cost from 1950 pounds sterling (2300 Euro ), the last sale mid-1980s (probably 1987) were thousands of phone booths by gone auction.
Pictures of payphones in the United Kingdom
Green Phone Booth on the Isle of Man
Modern telephone box, type: KX plus internet
Type K4 with integrated Postwertzeichen donors and mail box, called Dumb post office
Type K4 with integrated Postwertzeichen donors and mail box