Reports - Autovon
Ipswich Autovon Exchange
Where? Ipswich, Suffolk. Photos 32. Comments 12. Posted 27 January 2007.
The Autovon Exchange at Ipswich was one of the first places I visited when I started this hobby. Annoyingly I was thwarted and couldn't get in. Visit two and three were the same. But with the help of Abo, today we finally got in.
Put simply, Autovon was an (initially American) telephone system for it's defence. It allowed priority calling etc. I can't even begin to describe what the place was used for, but SubBrit has a pretty damn good piece.
The exchange at Ipswich closed in the 1990s and has suffered at the hands of vandals ever since. In the last year or so, Suffolk Aviation Heritage Museum have been working on site to restore it - judging by what we saw today, they have quite a job ahead of them.
