PhoneBox! by @Yasemin Richie
Between 1926 and 1968 the General Post Office introduced eight public telephone kiosk types. The K8 was the final design, a replacement for the K6, designed three decades earlier by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The K8 never matched the success of the K6, but some 11,000 examples were installed across Britain. Despite this the number of surviving kiosks is relatively small. Only 54 surviving K8s have been identified, a tiny percentage of the total number of K8s manufactured.
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The K1 was Britain's first national kiosk following the unification of private public telephone companies under the control of the General Post Office in 1912. The idea of a universal design stemmed from attempts to harmonise the different systems inherited by the General Post Office. The Mk 234 arrived in 1921. At the time it appeared out-dated and a few years later a competition was organised to select a design for a new kiosk, the K2.
The K4 kiosk was designed by the Engineering Department of the General Post Office. It used the successful design of the K2 kiosk, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, expanded to include a post box and stamp machine; it was an automated mini-Post Office. The K4 kiosk was enormous and was half as big again as the K2 kiosk. The K4 was introduced in limited numbers in Britain and production ceased within five years. Only 5 examples remain and are given Grade II listing status by English Heritage.
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