More asset tags

Starting to get going on the asset tagging of valuable street furniture now, and today noticed an interesting bit of old-style asset tagging from BT.

You just the issue the chaps who put up the telegraph poles with a handful of metal strips like that illustrated left, together with a punch. Then before they leave an erected pole, they just punch the code out of the strip and then nail the perforated strip up onto the pole. Lasts forever.

One supposes that the 'P' does not stand for pole.

I also noticed that some of their newer cable boxes, the green ones standing about a metre high, have 'BT' - or perhaps 'British Telecom' - painted neatly in black on one end. So no asset number, but at least you do know that it is one of theirs.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/poles.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/asset-tags.html.