@cheeseweasel 554498 wrote:
Hang on, what was that at 0:31?
if you mean the two jingles the one after the fire bell sound was a recording I found on a vintage telecoms website from a tape cartridge taken from an old burglar alarm telephone alerter that was installed in a coastal town in East Anglia (the areas may be familiar to Biotech 😉 )
these were in common use from the 1960s to 1990s and would have pulse dialled the number and played out the message. from the numbers given it seems that both towns/villages were on automatic dialling using the UAX (Unattended Automatic Exchange) equipment. This was ingenious and advanced for its time but equipment faults leading to wrong numbers were not uncommon, hence why the telephone numbers are read out several times.
In bigger towns/cities it was once permitted for these things to dial nines directly, I’ve got other recordings which start with “Police, Police, Police…”. This is no longer permitted due to false alarms (often caused by badly sited PIRs) tying up the 999 system…
