IMPROVED PARTY TELEPHONES
NIS\V JiNCLISH SYSTEM (Received December 2tJ, 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 20. An invention which would be invaluable if it; were applicable to rural Australia, where inquisitive listening-in on party lines is prevalent, is a new and cheaper g 1 ' 011 ! 1 telephone service, which will be available throughout England m April, except for very small exchanges. j . „ Subscribers will be connected to the exchange in groups ot from four to eight and will bo able to talk m complete secrecy. One subscriber cannot use the line while another is cluing so, nor can he telephone another in the same group, but as Lie greatest distance between these wul not. exceed 350 yards the last objection should not be a serious one.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21050, 29 December 1933, Page 9
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