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There you go, some more info on the Minstrel... http://www.phone-pages.org.uk/minstrel.htm

We had a compact phone in the 60s (same time the WE trimline was out...60s) it was called the GPO (Now BT) trimphone. Looked like this (pic bellow)...It had a buzzer for the ringer which made the infamour cricket sound to the ring, as apose to the regular 700 series GPO telephones woth the...

Indeed so, the BT Minstrel was not out until the early 90s and is far more advanced than a WE trimline.

The Telephone "looks suspiciously like a U.S. Western Electric Slim-line. (Where is Alex from the Vacuum Forum?)" Hyacinth's Pear white telephone was a British Telecom (BT) Minstrel phone, the first phone to have last number redial I believe. Here is a little info on it for all interested...