WIRELESS 'PHONE ON TRAIN.
REGULAR CANADIAN SERVICE,
(From Onr Own Correspondent.)
VANCOUVER, May 12,
Following the recent remarkable experiments, the Canadian National Railways management has announced that, starting at an early date, travellers will be enabled to telephone without delay from trains to practically- any point in this country or the United States while the trains are in motion.
Conversation with European and South American centres may also "be affected, but this latter service will be subject to the usual international delay.
The cost of the new service will be only about 50 cents per message more than the ordinary long-distance call. Mr. J. C. Burkholder, chief engineer of the Canadian National Railways, is the inventor of the special apparatus used in making the train telephone service possible. The adoption of the new system recalls the fact that the Canadian National trains were the first to be equipped with radio for the entertainment of travellers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1930, Page 27
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