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Exhibition area 1 - police box and pillars
Inside the "Tardis" police box
Exhibition area 1 - K7, KX100, and Booth 7A
Exhibition area 1 - Mercury cabinet
Exhibition area 1 - K8, roadside assistance boxes and K6
Exhibition area 2 - K4, K5, K3, K1 Mk 236 and K2
Exhibition area 3 - K6s and K1 Mk 235
Inside the unit automatic exchange 13 (UAX13)
Inside the telephone exchange electronic 2 (TXE2)
In 1981, the first steps were taken to introduce competition into the UK telecommunications industry. Mercury Communications Ltd - a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless - were the first to be licensed to compete with British Telecom and, in 1988, they opened their public payphone service. They choose to provide payphones that would only take credit and phone cards to avoid all the problems of cash handling.