Pay-on-Answer Boxes

HC Deb 19 February 1964 vol 689 cc1189-90

28. Mr. H. Clark

asked the Postmaster-General whether the installation of pay-on-answer telephone boxes is being restricted until a decision is made on decimal coinage.

Mr. Bevins

No, Sir.

Mr. Clark

Can my right hon. Friend assure me that the machines now being installed are capable of inexpensive adaptation when we have decimal coinage?

Mr. Bevins

We have ordered pay-on-answer boxes which will meet our needs until about the beginning of 1965. However, if and when decimal coinage is adopted, all these boxes will require substantial modification.

Mr. Clark

Can my right hon. Friend assure me that they are being designed so that their adaptation will not be an expensive and lengthy process?

Mr. Bevins

That is a factor which will be taken into account when new orders are placed.