DEALING WITH THE PIRATES
London is dealing with the radio pirates in quite a profitable manner. The Post Office has been sending out wireless detector vans, five of them identifiable as such by the aerial visible on the roof, while one is disguised as a private car. As a result of the voyages of the detector vans through some 5,000 miles of London streets, 80,000 licenses have been taken out within a week, in addition to tho normal growth of licenses issued. “Give me a wireless license quick, the van is in our street,” was the frank demand of one householder. Within a week the Post Office has received £40,000 from these evaders, and about a hundred prosecutions have been authorised, while many more arc being considered. A Post Office authority estimates that, taking a line through these London disclosures, there are probably a million unlicensed wireless sets throughout the country.
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Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 4
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151DEALING WITH THE PIRATES Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 4
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