Alpo Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I don't speak British. I speak American. I understand a lot of British, but I can't really say I'm fluent in it. IN THE BOOK A man is going to make a telephone call. He specifies that it is going to be AD and C call. "The police station is not too far. I’m sure I can persuade them to let me make a call when the matter is so urgent. An AD and C call of course. The rate-payers’ pockets mustn’t suffer." I'm assuming, from the last sentence, that is a collect call - the recipient will pay the toll charges. But I don't know for sure. Does anyone know what an AD and C call is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Silly me... I thought A D and C was a medical procedure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 What time period is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted September 16, 2022 Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 Late 1960s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Spoke to an English expatriate this morning who was there in that time frame. She was sure it was a collect call but couldn't recall the actual words. When next she phones her brother, still in the UK, she will ask and get back to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted September 16, 2022 Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 Posted this on another board. Someone responded that it was Advise of Duration and Charge. Didn't say what that meant, but I'm going to take a guess. I would see this occasionally in old movies. Someone would make a long distance call, and after the call was over the operator would call back and tell you the charges. So if I was a Hardpan's house and wanted to call my daughter in Georgia, after I said bye-bye baby and hung up the operator would call back and say that call lasted 18 minutes and 26 seconds and cost $5.83. So I give Hardpan 6 bucks to cover as Long distance bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 21 minutes ago, Alpo said: Posted this on another board. Someone responded that it was Advise of Duration and Charge. Didn't say what that meant, but I'm going to take a guess. I would see this occasionally in old movies. Someone would make a long distance call, and after the call was over the operator would call back and tell you the charges. So if I was a Hardpan's house and wanted to call my daughter in Georgia, after I said bye-bye baby and hung up the operator would call back and say that call lasted 18 minutes and 26 seconds and cost $5.83. So I give Hardpan 6 bucks to cover as Long distance bill. I recall doing this on pay phones back in the 70’s. When the phone company trusted people and people were trustworthy enough that the phone company would do this. Then one day scumbaggery set in and that ended that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I think it refers to the old variable tariff (depending on distance) public pay phones..... We had A B here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 "Advice of Charge and Duration." Not Advise! English, not American. Having searched using the correct language, I second Alpo's finding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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