GPO/BT TRIAL & PROTOTYPE KIOSKS


See also:-
History of the BPO Kiosk
1923 Kiosk Competition
 
1923 Competition
Design by Sir John Burnet
1923 Competition
Design by Sir Robert Mortimer
   
1923 Competition
Design by the Birmingham Civic Society
1923 Competition
Design by the Metropolitan Boroughs Joint Standing Committee
   
1923 Competition Winner
Prototype of K2 - adopted kiosks had no door lever or Georgian glass
K7 - field trailed but was not adopted as aluminium did not weather well
 
   
Prototype kiosk with stamp vending machine in the rear panel - this idea became the K4
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Same prototype - side view
Trialled in the City of Bath in 1926

   
Exterior view of K6
with connection strips in rear
Interior view of K6
with connection strips in rear
   
K6 with strips connection in rear The same K6 on the street
   
   

 

K8 Prototype - Picture dated 1966

 

Prototype Kiosk No. 8 (K8) outside Post Office, 207 Old Street, London.
Picture dated 1968

 
 
 
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