Following the fish & Chips in newspaper ..

Kick Back Carrier   ...  As PMG Technicians circa 1958, we had to maintain a system of these that were used between the Front Counter & the Telegraph Room at the back of the local Post Office. (Morse keys & sounders were just being phased out in favor of M15 Teleprinters & Tape Perforators .. We maintained them too)  -  BTW .. we also had to wind & do minor mtce on the local chiming Town Clock situated in the Post Office spire.  The first job of the 2 to 10pm shift on Wednesdays was to climb the stairway up to the top of the spire & wind both the clock & chime mechanisms, after adjusting the time against the Telephone Exchange Clock. We fixed the Post Office Fluro lights too - tubes & ballasts only.  In fact we did all the minor Post Office mtce including broken chairs, touch up painting & such like.

The next photo is a cartridge from a Pneumatic carrier system.  A local department store used a network of these to send purchase paperwork & cash from the sales counter to the Accounts section where receipts & correct change were made up & sent back to the sales point. No cash held at the sales counter  .. only in the Accounts section.

edit .. I was much too young to know much about those suspenders  .. but not for the want of trying  .. there were about 50 or so un-married Telephonists in the local manual exchanges too.

-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 19th of December 2022 04:33:17 PM

We have one of those old toilets in our building. A few months ago I replaced the rubber gasket & polished the brass parts.

Also cleaned up 3 decade old tapes.

My childhood ended at 15, from then on I enjoyed these four items.