Cranbourne Telephone Directory from 1973..

I came across an 'Interim Telephone Directory' for the local area  from 1973.  It covers part of the 59 area - Lang Lang  to Cranbourne, Officer to Nar Nar Goon and  was produced when the new automatic telephone exchanges and STD (Subscriber Truck Dialling) came in. Here are the pages from Cranbourne - it's just over 3 pages long - about 800 subscribers. I wonder how many telephones there are in Cranbourne now?  There is more information about the introduction of the automatic telephone exchanges and a list of Pakenham subscribers here. 

Click on each image to enlarge them.

Here are the instructions, so you know how to make STD calls!

For more information about the introduction of the automatic telephone exchanges and a list of Pakenham subscribers here.

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