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    A police box is a public telephone kiosk or callbox for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police. It was used...
    29 KB (3,145 words) - 12:47, 5 August 2024
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    appearance of the Doctor's TARDIS typically mimics a police box, an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain...
    44 KB (4,876 words) - 03:29, 9 August 2024
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    A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a tiny structure furnished with a payphone and designed for...
    27 KB (2,840 words) - 17:30, 14 July 2024
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    The red telephone box, is a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for Liverpool Cathedral...
    57 KB (6,615 words) - 16:18, 25 July 2024
  • Public telephone may refer to: Call box Courtesy telephone Emergency telephone Payphone Police box Red telephone box Telephone booth Public Telephone (film)...
    285 bytes (59 words) - 00:23, 29 May 2019
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    Gilbert Mackenzie Trench (category Metropolitan Police Surveyors)
    who died in post in 1920. He is credited as the designer of the police telephone box, which has since become a pop culture icon owing to its immortalisation...
    4 KB (522 words) - 21:07, 19 June 2024
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    II listed building. Police boxes were deployed in the UK as a police telephone communications point before public telephone boxes were widely available...
    4 KB (426 words) - 20:15, 7 September 2023
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    Kōban (redirect from Koban (police box))
    community policing activities which complement the work of larger, central police stations. Although often translated into English as "police box", kōban...
    10 KB (859 words) - 02:05, 21 November 2023
  • Who", they find out that his home is a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Unexpectedly, they are shrunken to an eighth of an inch in size...
    5 KB (527 words) - 14:39, 31 January 2024
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    British law enforcement". Introduced by the Met in 1929, the blue police telephone box (basis for the TARDIS in Doctor Who) was once a common sight throughout...
    261 KB (23,791 words) - 03:51, 11 August 2024
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    A call box or callbox is a (usually metal) box containing a special-purpose direct line telephone or other telecommunications device which has been used...
    12 KB (1,466 words) - 22:56, 8 August 2023
  • based. Tom mistook the Doctor's time machine, Tardis, for a real police telephone box while attempting to foil a jewel robbery. He accompanied the Doctor...
    77 KB (11,278 words) - 16:27, 31 July 2024
  • pursuit by some undefined enemy". His ship is also described as "a police telephone box [...] but anyone entering it finds himself inside an extensive electronic...
    98 KB (13,859 words) - 21:38, 7 August 2024
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    in Wallonia, roadside emergency telephones are expected to remain operational until 2020. Police box Emergency telephone number Highway location marker...
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    television series Doctor Who. The fictional time machine looks like a police telephone box from mid-twentieth century Britain. The official naming citation...
    9 KB (614 words) - 23:36, 2 June 2024
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    World War and went on to be used as a bank and a polling station. A police telephone box was constructed next to the Pump in February 1936, and became operational...
    36 KB (4,283 words) - 15:41, 15 July 2024
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    separate channel inaccessible to the telephone user. This development limited the usefulness of audio-tone-based blue boxes by the 1980s, and they are of little...
    46 KB (6,618 words) - 00:23, 15 July 2024
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    City of Edinburgh Tours. Telephones portal "Edinburgh Police Boxes". theedinburghreporter.co.uk. 31 August 2014. "Police Box in the High Street - part...
    3 KB (274 words) - 10:39, 20 August 2022
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    of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent...
    55 KB (6,285 words) - 15:56, 12 August 2024
  • bleachers as they were standing at the main entrance. The police officer ran to the police telephone box located at 7th Street and Florida Ave NW. No. 7 Engine...
    10 KB (1,079 words) - 19:08, 2 July 2024
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