PM O’Neill Receives a Trimphone

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PM O’Neill Receives a Trimphone

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Location

Stormont

Year

1965

Date

Production 20/12/1965

Length

31sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

PM Terence O’Neill takes possession of the latest gadget – a Trimphone. These were the height of sophistication at the time and the design still looks great today.

Notes

The Trimphone is a model of telephone designed in the late-1960s in the UK. It was positioned as a more fashionable alternative to the standard telephones available from the Post Office Telephones, the nationalised predecessor to British Telecom. The name is an acronym standing for Tone Ring Illuminator Model, referring to the then innovative electronic ringer ("warbling", as opposed to the traditional bell) and the illuminated dial.

Credits

An Ulster Television Produciton.

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