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Experimental notebook, 1896 - 1897
Early telephone directory
Post Office Telephones advertising material, 1930s
Phonecards, 1990s
National Telephone Company Midland province, staff dinner programme
Liverpool scrapbook
Model vans
Photograph albums, 1911 and 1932
London telephone directories
Bell's Telephone, edited by Kate Field
Victorian marketing
Shareholder register
This notebook belonged to James E Taylor, an assistant engineer in the Post Office Engineering Department. It records work with the early Post Office long distance telephone network, and also Post Office experiments with Marconis wireless telegraphy equipment at Penarth in 1897. Taylor was only 25 at the time he was working with this leading edge technology.