Order of Sheila's first 10/11 shots.

[guest2181]

You obviously don't understand what I'm saying. You DON'T make internal calls as such.It acts as an intercom as soon as you hear a tinkle,caused by lightly pressing the metal active button. If you're able to listen in to a call from anywhere within the property,then you can also pick up a receiver which automatically activates ALL phones ( being on the one line ) then you can speak to another member of that household. NO dialling is needed.

I understand exactly what you are saying and I am telling you that you are mistaken.

The only way two internal phones could be connected to each other, is if an external call was also live. If the external caller disconnected, then the two (or more) internal phones would not remain connected to each other.

[lookout]

A for instance was when the family lived in a 3xstorey house,we had 5 phones in all which were added by a friend who worked for BT.All on the same line.
I was upstairs,3rd floor,cleaning the phone and as I lifted the receiver,my late husband who was downstairs,picked up the phone and asked me if I needed anything as he'd heard the phone tinkle. No,I said,I was just cleaning it.
It was a Godsend when he was ill in bed because he'd use the phone in his bedroom to call down if he needed assistance. You only had to lift the receiver off its cradle,without any dialling,in order to speak to someone within the home. This is what you CAN do with multiple phones in the home and just one line coming in.

[guest2181]

A for instance was when the family lived in a 3xstorey house,we had 5 phones in all which were added by a friend who worked for BT.All on the same line.
I was upstairs,3rd floor,cleaning the phone and as I lifted the receiver,my late husband who was downstairs,picked up the phone and asked me if I needed anything as he'd heard the phone tinkle. No,I said,I was just cleaning it.
It was a Godsend when he was ill in bed because he'd use the phone in his bedroom to call down if he needed assistance. You only had to lift the receiver off its cradle,without any dialling,in order to speak to someone within the home. This is what you CAN do with multiple phones in the home and just one line coming in.

It doesn't matter how a system worked elsewhere.

That was not the case at WHF.

[lookout]

It doesn't matter how a system worked elsewhere.

That was not the case at WHF.

Well there's only one way to find out. That's another question I'll ask Jeremy.

[guest2181]

Well there's only one way to find out. That's another question I'll ask Jeremy.

The other way is ......... I've just told you.

[Jane]

A for instance was when the family lived in a 3xstorey house,we had 5 phones in all which were added by a friend who worked for BT.All on the same line.
I was upstairs,3rd floor,cleaning the phone and as I lifted the receiver,my late husband who was downstairs,picked up the phone and asked me if I needed anything as he'd heard the phone tinkle. No,I said,I was just cleaning it.
It was a Godsend when he was ill in bed because he'd use the phone in his bedroom to call down if he needed assistance. You only had to lift the receiver off its cradle,without any dialling,in order to speak to someone within the home. This is what you CAN do with multiple phones in the home and just one line coming in.

I once worked for someone who had his business premises below his living premises. If a call came through for him when he was in his apartment the phone there didn't ring. It required that a button was pressed on the downstairs phone, which he would then answer and make the decision as to whether or not he wanted the call put through. Once it was, a light flashed until the call was ended. At night all calls were, by pressing the necessary button, transferred to his apartment. Whilst the system was available, MOST private residences DIDN'T have it in place.

[maggie]

I once worked for someone who had his business premises below his living premises. If a call came through for him when he was in his apartment the phone there didn't ring. It required that a button was pressed on the downstairs phone, which he would then answer and make the decision as to whether or not he wanted the call put through. Once it was, a light flashed until the call was ended. At night all calls were, by pressing the necessary button, transferred to his apartment. Whilst the system was available, MOST private residences DIDN'T have it in place.

Don't remind me of those awful exchange box things small company's had with various extensions.  You had to press a lever up or down or whatever to put calls through or more often cut them off.  Could never work them , could never have been a receptionist, total nightmare 

[Jane]

Don't remind me of those awful exchange box things small company's had with various extensions.  You had to press a lever up or down or whatever to put calls through or more often cut them off.  Could never work them , could never have been a receptionist, total nightmare 

I imagine that they were probably designed for and used by small businesses. Lookout DID say that "a friend who worked for BT" had installed theirs. A question of who one knows,perhaps?