LONDON’S “TALKING CLOCK”
£85,000 REVENUE FOR YEAR
LONDON, December 14
A commentary on the number of people who forget to wind up their watches and let their clocks run down is found in the fact that in the past year the Postal Department's talking clock (Tim) told the time to 20,000,000 inquirers, thus earning £85,000.
The time may be bought from any telephone machine in London, and hundreds of thousands of housewives sought the talking clock every week, using their home telephones at one penny a call. The Post Office has decided to extend the time service by trunk-line to Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and later to other centres.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1937, Page 11
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