![]() ![]() In the House of Lords the Earl of Gowrie, the Minister of State for Employment insisted BT should “abandon this ridiculous scheme”. The Daily Mail started a campaign against the “Yellow Peril” and questions were asked in Parliament. After the red had been received so poorly all the way back in the early days, there was a public outcry at the decision to repaint them. The red colour was under threat when British Telecom was privatised in 1980 and the company adopted a corporate colour scheme of yellow the following year. ![]() The red colour, known as “currant red” is defined by a British Standard BS381C-Red539 was introduced in 1968, previous kiosks were panted a slightly darker shade BS381C-Red538. Pancras' old churchyard and Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott had recently been made a trustee of Sir John Soane's museum and the domed top of his winning telephone box design has more than a passing resemblance to Soane's self designed mausoleums or tombs in St. He relented and the Royal Fine Arts Commission organised a competition, inviting three respected architects (Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Sir Robert Lorimer and Sir John Burnet) alongside designs from the Post Office and the Birmingham Civic Society. The Birmingham Civic Society persisted and gathered support from the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Town Planning Institute and the Royal Academy to lobby the Postmaster General to reconsider. The Birmingham Civic Society produced their own design – in reinforced concrete – but it was rejected in preference for the K1. By 1923 the general unpopularity of the K1 resulted in the Metropolitan Boroughs Joint Standing Committee independently seeking a new standardised design. ![]()
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