Divert-A-Call demonstration call

Demonstration of a "Divert-A-Call" call forwarding unit. This would have been installed in a telephone exchange in the UK, and used to intercept out-of-hours calls to a Doctors Surgery, and divert emergency calls to the duty doctors home phone number.

[@beefchicken]

“Limpsfield Chart exchange has been closed. All numbers have been transferred to Oxted to be come bfbehwkir numbers”

[@lpbkdotnet]

Possibly Caterham?

[@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE]

hey ! was it easy to get one of these wired up? a friend who works at the local telephone exchange dropped a few things around and one of those was in there. it would be awesome if you could potentially give us a low down or is it super simple? to be honest I have not looked at it in detail yet! thanks a lot

[@lpbkdotnet]

They can be fussy buggers to get working, and in this video I’ve got two (possibly three, can’t remember) phone lines connected to make it work - but I think its possible to get it working in a demo mode without needing any phone lines. I’ve got all the documentation here paulseward.com/downloads/Telephony_Announcers/Divert-a-Call/ but it assumes you know how phone exchanges work so isn’t easy to follow if you don’t!