GPO Telephones - House Telephone System 2 and HES 4

House Telephone System 2 and HES 4

These were 700 type updates on the HTS 1 and HES 1 respectively. On both systems the main improvement over their predecessors was that the rows of call buttons were now arranged transversely instead of longitudinally. This meant that the basic 706 case styling only needed to be stretched forwards by 3 inches instead of 8 as previously, on the HES. This looked neater and took up less space. Otherwise, both of these systems had the same facilities as their 300 type counterparts.

Read more about this topic:  GPO Telephones

Famous quotes containing the words house, telephone, system and/or hes:

    The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

    Done is battell on the dragon blak,
    Our campioun Chryst confountet hes his force;
    William Dunbar (c. 1465–c. 1530)