LONDON TELEPHONES
CHANGE TO AUTOMATIC ■. ■■-,-■<, .■" •■• ■•
(British Official Wireless.) . (Received March 6, 2.15 p.m.)
RUGBY, March's.
■ Eight thousand eight ■ hundred subscribers to two London telephone exchanges, who; make, on an average, about 350,000 calls a week, will participate tomorrow in the 'largest singl« transfer, to date, in the^successiye.conversion of the telephone service from the manual to the automatic system. Every circuit has been run into the old and new exchanges arid, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon,; 17,600 wedges will be simultaneously withdrawn, completing the contact of the new exchange with the subscribers' while, at the same time,- the circuits to the old exchange ■ will- rbevidisconnected.- ■ ■: .f X
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 10
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107LONDON TELEPHONES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 10
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