Is that a cb arial I see?
Hi Chris......no not a CB aerial and am totally ignorant re CB but had a few friends that were crazy for it!
¿Nevertheless I imagine is was on similar lines to CB?
It was actually a mobile car phone system.....from memory I think I had it installed in about 1984 at a then, stupid price in excess of 2000 British pounds.
With that was a call cost of some 0.30 pence per minute and a monthy maintenance cost!
System was and installed by Securicor (then opposite the WBA football ground) who became partners with British Telecom, the only other player in those days was Racal (later to become Vodaphone).
Example of working was say..........Chris rings from landline to a special Securicor number and asks to speak to 'YELLOW 262' (my nick then allocated by Securicor), Securicor then rings me in the car and says that Chris is online to speak to you .....fine, please put him through. Cannot remember exactly but I think that I had to press a keypad button to talk then release to listen to you. It proved itself to be a great tool which gave then, a step above your possible competitors as clients ( who did not know of the install) could not believe the response time with dealing with their request for me to call in etc. It paid for itself from the first day, absolutely fantastic.
Another great thing was that when the Securicor operator rang the car and said the girlfriend was on the phone you could say 'tell her there is no contact , must be out of signal range'!!.......literally saved by the bell!
Never thought I would ever need to use the old phone again, having kept it as a momento of business days but got it out of its box and took these pics this afternoon:-
