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Due to the fact that I studied remotely, this semester I did not take part directly in the case study that took place in the group. So, I decided with my tutor that I would do this case study alone, reproducing what my colleagues did. The study was based on the reproduction of a police box with a model. So, in the following pages are illustrated drawings reproduced by me of a police box and a model, like the one made by my colleagues.

The Metropolitan Police boxes, designed by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench in 1929, became Britain's most recognisable police boxes. Between 1929 and 1938 around 1,000 examples of the Mackenzie Trench police box were installed. They measured 9 ft 4 in height, and 4 ft 6 in width.The blue police box is often associated with the science fiction television programme Doctor Who, in which the protagonist's time machine, a TARDIS, is externally disguised as a 1960s British police box.

The Metropolitan Police (Met) installed police boxes around London between 1928 and 1937, with the most well-known type built by the Met's own surveyor and architect, Gilbert Mackenzie Trench, in 1929. The winning builder was hired to erect 43 wooden boxes with concrete roofs in the final Trench pattern as part of experimental installations in the Richmond and Wood Green sub-divisions, which were completed in December 1929 and January 1930, respectively, after two competing prototype designs were installed on the newly constructed Becontree Estate in December 1928.

With the exception of the teak doors, the system was widely adopted throughout Greater London over the next eight years, using better replicas of the Mackenzie Trench design that were now totally made of concrete for increased longevity. Because the concrete boxes were significantly colder and wetter than their wooden predecessors, more powerful heaters were fitted. A stool, a table with drawer, a brush and duster, a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit, and a small electric heater for use by police were commonly included in the boxes' interiors.

The light at the top of the London police boxes, like the Glaswegian boxes of the 19th and early 20th centuries, flashed as a signal to police officers to contact the station...

“Police Box”