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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 187642, member: 25"]Even in the 1950s it would be very unusual indeed to find an air conditioned place in London. It was quite reasonably thought not worth the expense for possibly a couple of weeks worth of days a year when it would be useful, and more effective than just opening a few windows. </p><p><br /></p><p>It took the advent of tall buildings with sealed windows to create a use for general air conditioning, and this did not really occour till the building boom of the 1960s. The phone numbers with named exchanges, usually abbreviated for dialing to three letters was not abolished till 1968.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd say on the evidence this sign is from the 1960s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 187642, member: 25"]Even in the 1950s it would be very unusual indeed to find an air conditioned place in London. It was quite reasonably thought not worth the expense for possibly a couple of weeks worth of days a year when it would be useful, and more effective than just opening a few windows. It took the advent of tall buildings with sealed windows to create a use for general air conditioning, and this did not really occour till the building boom of the 1960s. The phone numbers with named exchanges, usually abbreviated for dialing to three letters was not abolished till 1968. I'd say on the evidence this sign is from the 1960s.[/QUOTE]
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