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93/273/1 Door to Speaking Clock room, metal/perspex, Australia Post, Sydney, Australia, 1954
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Object statement
Door to Speaking Clock room, metal/perspex, Australia Post, Sydney, Australia, 1954
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
Made at Post office workshop
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
Was the door to the room in GPO Sydney which housed the two speaking clocks and their associated electronics

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Description
Door to Speaking Clock room, metal/perspex, Australia Post, Sydney, Australia, 1954
Matt chrome open frame door, with 2 glass panels. Top glass panel has gold coloured lettering: "UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS/ARE NOT PERMITTED/IN THIS ROOM." Central panel, horizontally across door has metal letters:"SPEAKING CLOCK 1954"

Made: Postmaster-General's Department; ; 1954
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
93/273/1
Production date
1954
Height
2040 mm
Width
820 mm
Depth
70 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Gift of Telephone Historical Society, 1993
Subjects
+ Horology
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Concise link back to this object: http://from.ph/132904
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