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Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings

Avoncroft 3D objects

Instructions for use
Select an object to view from the list below. To rotate either click on the rotate icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the image or click and drag within the object window.

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Ericsson Speakerphone
A/B Coinbox mechanism 1
A/B Coinbox mechanism 2
Pay on answer (POA) payphone
Renters prepayment coin collecting box
Strowger switches

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A/B coinbox mechanism 1

Button A and B prepayment coinboxes were introduced in kiosks in 1925. Pay-on-answer coinboxes began to supersede the Button A and B models at the end of the 1950s, although some remained in active use in Scotland until 1992.