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TRUNK TELEPHONE CALLS
NEW BRITISH SWITCHBOARD
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, September 19. General Post Office engineers have just completed the installation of a new type of telephone switchboard, whereby London subscribers can', obtain, a trunk call to any part of Great Britain practically as quickly as they can get a local number.
The principle on which this new "on demand" system ( works is that the same operator who accepts the call carries the connection right through to its destination.
Similar facilities to all big cities in Europe will be available in a few weeks. This stage will be facilitated by the new Anglo-French telephone cable laid two days ago,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 11
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