FUTURE OF WORLD COMMUNICATION
BRITISH RESEARCH COMPANY (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 8. Air ViceiMarsliall O. G. Lywood, formerly director of signals at the Ail Ministry, lias been appointed manag-ing-director of the £ 100,000 research company which leading British cable and telephone manufacturers formed with th'e object of assuring Britain s position in supplying the world s requirements for telecommunications equipment. . The company is- already establishing laboratories, which will be staffed predominantly by scientists who have worked for the Air and Supply Ministries, developing radar and radio for the services: Air Vice-Marshal Lywood said he foresaw the day when a world-wide system of radio teleprinting would link businessmen, no matter how remote from each other. They would send and receive messages m then own offices as easily and as speedily as British firms at present communicated with each other through land line systems. British engineers would astonish the world with the ingenuity which they are bringing to bear in the most modern of industrial revolutions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 255, 9 August 1946, Page 3
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