NEWLY-DEVISED SYSTEM
EMERGENCY TELEPHONE CALLS ARRANGEMENTS IN LfMOII (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 16.* ■ The Post Office has made elaborate arrangements for effecting a considerable speed-up in London r s emergency telephone calls in cases of fire, crime, or accident as regards 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 an andible alarm at the same time. Police stations, fire brigades,, and ambulance services are being linked'by a newly-devised system reducing the operation of an emergency call ,to seo. ends, with a new type of street tejeEhone pillar to be erected In large numers throughout London.
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Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 10
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133NEWLY-DEVISED SYSTEM Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 10
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