SPEEDIER SERVICE
EMERGENCY 'PHONE CALLS
IN LONDON
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, February 16,
The Post Office has made elaborate arrangements for effecting a considerable speed-up in London's emergency telephone calls in cases of fire, crime, or accident.
For calls by private subscribers, in the near future a system will be introduced in areas served by automatic exchanges by which, on a subscriber dialling a code number, the immediate attention of the operator will _be secured by a visual signal and audible alarm. At the same time police stations, fire brigades, and ambulance services are being linked by a newlydevised system of reducing the operation of the emergency call to seconds, with a new type of street telephone pillar to be erected in large numbers throughout London.
By special arrangement Renter's world service, In addition to other special sources of Information, Is used in tho compilation of tho overseas Intelligence published In this issue, and all rights therein In Australia and New Zealand aro reserved.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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164SPEEDIER SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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