Between the Lines. A personal history of the British public telephone and telecommunications services, 1870-1990

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The writer was an executive in the Post Office Engineering Dept, which he joined at Colchester in 1947, and later British Telecom from which he retired in 1990 when head of Contract Administration Section for purchases of telephone exchange equipment. Provides a review of the development of telephone public services from the beginnings in 1870, notably its equipment and organisation, but with a focus on the period of his employment. Includes chapters: 'The Strowger era'; 'The lines and the network'; 'Post Office and British Telecom transport'; 'The organisation'; 'Accounts and accountability'; 'Efficiency projects'; 'The unions'; 'Computers'; 'Digitisation'; 'Privatisation'; 'Training and personal development'; 'British Telecom overseas'; 'The future'