The Telephone numbers started changing from prefixes to full numbers about 1958

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Sent: Saturday, 16 December 2017 3:47 PM
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Mal Rowe wrote:

> The other clue is the telephone number starting with MB - according to Wikipedia letter prefixes were replaced with numbers in the 'early 1960s'. Do we have a telephone gunzel who can be more precise?

In Box Hill, from the time I remember telephone numbers, which was the early 1960s, our number was 88-3452.

My father's car, a green Austin which I think he bought in about 1963, was HBW 753 if the number helps date things. We certainly had the phone number at that time.

Bizarre that I have no idea what my (landline) phone number is; as it's never used and just came no-extra-charge with the broadband internet over here... Almost everyone here uses mobiles these days.

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david mcloughlin, Wellington no more
"Holy writ requires unholy scrutiny."

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