SORTING LETTERS.
EXPENSIVE MECHANISM AT SYDNEY. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— BS ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH—COPTBIGBT.) (Received September 17th, 9.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 17. Elaborate mail-sorting plant, which occupied many months to install at the Sydney General Post Office, costing £120.000, is now in operation. An experiment carried out with 50 000 dummy letters revealed one hundred per cent, efficiency. The, whole thing is automatic and is purely an Australian invention. There are one hundred electric motors employed in the mechanism - .
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20036, 18 September 1930, Page 11
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77SORTING LETTERS. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20036, 18 September 1930, Page 11
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