Many years ago the enterprising company for whom I worked, manufactured municipal vehicles of all descriptions. Like in most businesses slack times suddenly emerge but one of the jobs the management negotiated and took on to keep the work force intact and the wheels turning so to speak, was to refurbish phone boxes for the then GPO. They were collected in their hundreds from all over the country; shot blasted, welded up where necessary, repainted and repaired and returned whence they came. We were knee deep in the bloomin' things but the company survived and the boxes emerged like brand new into the bargain!
