TO BE SPEEDED UP.
EMERGENCY 'PHONE CALLS
LONDON, February 18. London is to speed up its emergency calls in cases of fire, accident or crime. The Post Office is arranging for special signals on private telephone lines. As regards calls by private subscribers, a system will be introduced in the areas served by automatic exchangee by which, on a subscriber dialling a code number, the immediate attention of the operator will be secured by a visual signal and an audible alarm. At the same time, police stations, fire brigades and ambulance services are being linked, by a newly-devised system which reduces the operation of an emergency call to seconds, with a new type of street telephone pillar to be erected in large number* throughout London.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 7
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125TO BE SPEEDED UP. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 7
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