Рет қаралды 329
"telephone sanitisation" was a big business for many years, people would come round and professionally clean all the telephones in the office.
One of the things they could fit to your GPO 706 or 746 telephone was a Phonair telephone freshener!
If your handset started to smell, you could clip one of these in to make it smell nice and fresh!
Patented applied for in 1965, (granted in 1969) they were quite popular in homes and offices.
Especially if you were sharing a phone with a smoker (and in the 1960s/70s - of course you were!)
The patent is available online here:
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