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Uploaded by on Jan 4, 2012

The Police Box or TARDIS is made out of plastic-coated ply specially structured Xlife sheets. Overall The Police Box or TARDIS is just over half a ton, and one friend got me the blue light to go on top.

So all I need to pay out for was wood for the base and roof, blue gloss paint , door lock , glass window panes and the sign over the doors.

I when on the Internet looking information on the size and all the types of police Boxes,
Not everyone realises that the TARDIS in Doctor who has changed many times.

The designer responsible for the first Doctor Who serial was Peter Brachacki and as such the very first TARDIS shape is his "design". At a glance it is a reasonably faithful reproduction of those Police Boxes which could be seen on the streets of England in the sixties, but there are differences. Its roof stacks were not tall enough, and nor was its top 'pyramid' which resulted in the whole prop being a lot shorter than a real box. The panels had less margin around them and the overall box was narrower. It had a St John Ambulance logo on the door and a faithful arrangement of hammered glass window panes. One interesting thing to note is that the lock of the original TARDIS was on the left door, and there were no door handles.

The Police began to exploit the newly-invented telephone technology with a pioneering network set up in Glasgow in the early 1890s which allowed policemen to stay in touch via signal posts. The earliest form of police signal box had appeared in America in which different codes were dialled for different crimes and sent by Morse Code (dial 4 if there's a riot, or 5 if there's a drunkard...) but the Glasgow system exploited the new telephone technology.

So in the summer I started the building The Police Box or TARDIS as a Shed.

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