WIRELESS IN THE EAST
KINGDOM OF HEDJAZ CONTRACT WITH MARCONI COMPANY. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, January 7. The King of the Hedjaz and Ncjd has contracted with the Marconi Company for a system of telegraphic communication. Fifteen wireless stations will link up every important centre in the joint kingdom, and four Marconi sets fitted in lorries are also to be supplied as mobile telegraph stations, which will enable King Ibn Saud to keep in constant touch with his two capitals, Mecca and Riyadh, during his desert journeys. In Mecca and at Riyadh, 400 miles distant, powerful telephone and telegraph transmitters and modern receivers will be installed, and the King will be able to talk between his two palaces by means of special microphones. A British engineer will supervise the installation outside Mecca and to provide for maintenance afterwards King Ibn Saud has sent four of his subjects for instruction in the Marconi School.
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Evening Star, Issue 20687, 9 January 1931, Page 9
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156WIRELESS IN THE EAST Evening Star, Issue 20687, 9 January 1931, Page 9
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