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British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Post Office: Telephones (Inland)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 86 Series

Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Title: Post Office: Telephones (Inland)

Date(s): 1874-1938

Level of description: Series

Extent: 76 files

Name of creator(s):

No further information available

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

From 1880, the Post Office enjoyed a monopoly in respect of the provision of telegraph and telephone services in the UK, following a legal ruling on the powers conferred on the Postmaster General by the Telegraph Act, 1869. Private telephone companies in competition with the Post Office, principally the National Telephone Company, thereafter operated under licence from the Post Office. This remained the situation until 1912, when the Post Office took over the National Telephone Company which, by that time, was the last remaining telephone concern outside public control.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This series comprises items on telephone rates and charges, forms of licence issued by the Postmaster General, reports, memoranda and papers relating to matters of telephone policy, items of general interest and a collection of select committee and departmental reports.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

Public Record

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry checked by Barbara Ball

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Entry checked June 2011


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Telegraph Act 1869 c73 | Communications legislation | Legislation | Law
Telephone services | Utilities | Service industries

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