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Post by LouP on Jan 28, 2020 7:31:58 GMT
Another howler:the Welsh detective referring to the telephone company as BT. In 1985 it was British Telecom and an older person might have even called them the GPO which was their name until 1981! Isn’t BT the same as British Telecom , just shortened. ? My brother got a job at the GPO then it became British Telecom.
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Post by roverman on Jan 28, 2020 9:30:22 GMT
Yeah it’s the name we use now but it wasn’t rebranded as BT until the 1990s, in 1985 people just wouldn’t have described it in that way.
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Post by Charley Says... on Jan 28, 2020 18:24:38 GMT
Wasn't it when the adverts came out with Maureen Lipman in... She was called Beattie... And I think they were trying to get us used to the abbreviated name...
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Post by Charley Says... on Jan 28, 2020 18:26:03 GMT
Here's one from 1988...
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