Catalogue description Post Office: Telephones, Overseas

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Details of POST 87
Reference: POST 87
Title: Post Office: Telephones, Overseas
Description:

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.

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: 1877-1938
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 87 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: 12 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:

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.

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