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Jan. 01, 1966 - New phone - kiosk box to beat the phone wrekers tested out in Birmingham.; The city of Birmingham is armour-plasting its new subscriber trunk dialing telephones in an attempt to beat kiosk vandals. The counter-offensive was launched yesterday, it is rescuing the heavy metal cash containers of the out of date push-button telephones lat year over 529 Kiosks were put out of action by Vandals making this city the worst-hit outside the city of London. The cost of the operation is £30 per box. A post office Engineer tested out one of the new with a 21lb hammer and a crow bar but after five minutes he made empression an the Armour-plated box. Photo shows Mr. Johnson, a telephone Engineer seen kneeling on the floor attacking the new type telephone with a crow bar, but after five minutes he admitted failure

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