TELEPHONE CALLS
NEW SYSTEM FOR LONDON. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, February IG. The Post Office has made elaborate arrangements for effecting a considerable speed-up of London’s emergency telephone calls by private subscribers in cases of fire, crime, or accident. Soon a system will be introduced in areas served by automatic exchanges by which, on the subscriber dialling a code number, the immediate attention of the operator will be secured by a visual signal and an audible alarm. At the same, time police stations, fire brigtides, and ambulance services will be linked by a newlydevised system, reducing the operation of an emergency call to seconds with a new type of street telephone pillar which will be erected in large numbers throughout London.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 2
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