These original BT phone boxes are extensively refurbished to a high standard and finished in their original red and black livery. Each K6 Red Phone Box is supplied with a mains service panel and interior fluorescent lighting. Other configurations can be available to special order. Please contact us for details. Prices start at £1,950 excluding delivery. Please Note that VAT @ 20% will be added to the total price Call - +44 (0)1636 611110 for pricing details and availability.

K6
In 1935 the K6 Red Phone Box (kiosk number six) was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red phone box to be used extensively outside of London, and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red.

Number of red telephone boxes
The K6 was the most prolific kiosk in the UK and its growth, from 1935, can be seen from the BT archives:

1925 - 1,000 (K1 Only)
1930 - 8,000 (K2 & K3 Red Phone Boxes added)
1935 - 19,000 (K6 Red Phone Box introduced)
1940 - 35,000
1950 - 44,000
1960 - 65,000
1970 - 70,000 (K8 Red Phone Box introduced in 1968)
1980 - 73,000


The Crown Emblem

- The Tudor Crown - 1935 to 1952
- The St Edward's Crown - 1952 to date.

In 1952 the new Queen, Elizabeth II, decided to depart from the practice of using the purely symbolic 'Tudor Crown' as the symbol of her government, and instead use a representation of the actual crown generally used for British coronations, the St Edward's Crown. This new symbol therefore began to appear on the fascias of K6 Red Phone Boxes. In Scotland, the Post Office opted to use a representation of the actual Crown of Scotland, in line with the new practice for other parts of the Government.
Prior to these changes, the Tudor Crown had been used in all parts of the United Kingdom, and the British Empire.
To accommodate the two different Crowns on the K6 Red Phone Box, the fascia sections were henceforth cast with a slot in them, into which a plate bearing the appropriate crown was inserted before the roof section was fitted. (This change happened in 1955 and is a very useful way of dating K6 Red Phone boxes manufactured thereafter.)

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