WIRELESS IN BRITAIN
CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS]
RUGBY, August 11
The total number of wireless licenses in the United Kingdom at the end of July was 7,718,557, compared with 7,146,329 a year ago. The increase indicates the continued growth of public interest in wireless, and large attendances are expected at the Radio Exhibition, which opens at Olympia in a fortnight’s time.
There is a special curiosity among the buying public, this year, to see television sets, which the wireless trade is likely to be showing in anticipation of the opening of the television service. The widespread utilisation of wireless for police work has taken a new form in Lancashire, where the first police force has been equipped with a reciving and transmitting set, to be used for traffic control. The whole equipment weighs only six pounds, and the transmitting set has its own call sign, and a range of several miles. The Lancashire police is the only police force in the country which has a two-way wireless telephonic system working in connection with a fleet of police cars.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1936, Page 7
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