It's true though... you could slam down the old phones and get a good clunk & a bit of bell ringing!
We'd a big old heavy black Northern Telecom 500 model when I was a kid (this was in the 1980s!) It was replaced by much blander Northern Telecom Harmony phone
Still there to this day and still capable of being slammed down in disgust.
However, it's useless for doing reinactments of the Sweeney, you might get away with "The Thin Blue Line" though...
also still have one of these:
One of telecom's standard issues for years. Actually turns out to be a Danish design classic!
And the ultimate telecom eireann classic:
DTMF only phone based on the northern telecom harmony.
The handset cable just fits into Cork Harbour.
Apparently worth a lot of money as it's a unique version of a Nortel classic phone.
[This message has been edited by djk (edited 05-08-2005).]