IF CARS HAD PHONES
Telephone receivers in the dashboard of motor cars are a possibility suggested, by news from America. Mr Henry Ford, while driving round Schenectady, New York, in his car,. held a conversation with the Fofd manager in Buenos Afterwards he discussed with officials of the General Electric Company the feasibility of making telephones avail-, able for regular use in cars. The chief difficulty in such a project would seem to be wavelengths. The? presence on the road of thousands of, cars equipped with radio telephones,* each using a different wavelength, would cause congestion and interference. There are also other problems, such ns the screening of hign steel-framed buildings and electrical interference. It is not inconceivable, however, that one day a limited number of cars might have some such installation as. is now' foreshadowed.
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Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 13
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136IF CARS HAD PHONES Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 13
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