WEATHER SERVICE BY TELEPHONE
Housewives are among the most enthusiastic users of the telephone weather forecast service which the Post Office in Britain has instituted in London and wide areas in and around Birmingham in the Midlands, and Liverpool and Manchester in the north of England, writes Victoria Chappelle from London. Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, Belfast in Northern Ireland, and Cardiff in Wales will also have the service in the near future. Callers dial a given number and- hear an up-to-date forecast of the weather issued by the Meteorological Office and recorded by Post Office operators. The recordings are made on special machines which run continuously throughout the 24 hours. Soon after the London service opened a housewife remonstrated most strongly with the supervisor of her local exchange because, in spite of a forecast of prolonged sunny periods, a local shower drenched her washing. She complained that the forecaster showed complete indifference to her protests and was only pacified when it was explained that the recordings were automatically transmitted.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28253, 15 April 1957, Page 2
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