Catalogue description Post Office: Telephones (Inland)

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Details of POST 86
Reference: POST 86
Title: Post Office: Telephones (Inland)
Description:

This series comprises items on telephone rates and charges, forms of licence issued by the Postmaster General, reports, memoranda and papers relating to matters of telephone policy, items of general interest and a collection of select committee and departmental reports.

Please see BT Archives online catalogue and The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
Note: Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue and BT Archives online catalogue.
Date: 1874-1938
Arrangement:

Note that these records have been rearranged to fit the scheme of arrangement used at BT Archives. The records have been incorporated within TCB and the POST 86 reference numbers are now obsolete. Please contact BT Archives for more information.
Held by: BT Group Archives, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 76 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Custodial history: This series of records, along with other Post Office telecommunications records, was transferred from the Post Office Archives to BT Archives in 1991.
Administrative / biographical background:

From 1880, the Post Office enjoyed a monopoly in respect of the provision of telegraph and telephone services in the UK, following a legal ruling on the powers conferred on the Postmaster General by the Telegraph Act, 1869. Private telephone companies in competition with the Post Office, principally the National Telephone Company, thereafter operated under licence from the Post Office. This remained the situation until 1912, when the Post Office took over the National Telephone Company which, by that time, was the last remaining telephone concern outside public control.

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