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Allan Broadfield
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I realise that this is going totaly off piste, but I couldn't help noticing in a recent episode of 'Indian Summers' (channel 4, 17th april) , set in the thirties, an authentic telephone with the still in use curly plastic cord.
As a regular grumpy old git with too much time on my hands, I wrote to the Radio Times with a comment, but no response was had from the makers of the programme.
Do any of our brains trust on the forum have a clue? I thought all phone cords, and electrical cords, come to that, where covered in fabric.

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Maurice Leakey
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Allan
I agree with you.
See attached link for a vintage candlestick telephone. Cloth covered twisted twin-flex.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Vintage-Candlestick-Brass-Telephone-/252371267450

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Allan Broadfield
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Thanks Maurice, I had checked the net, and got the impression that the curly plastic cords first appeared around the late forties, early fifties but nothing concrete.
it seemed a rather obvious mistake considering the high production values for the series.

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Allan Broadfield
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Thanks Maurice, I had checked the net, and got the impression that the curly plastic cords first appeared around the late forties, early fifties but nothing concrete.
it seemed a rather obvious mistake considering the high production values for the series.

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Maurice Leakey
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Allan
I have just been watching a British film made in 1952. The more modern type telephones were being used, but they still had the twin woven twisted wires for their connection between base and hand-set.

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Allan Broadfield
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Thanks, Maurice. The evidence mounts!

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