TELEPHONES FOR AUTOMOBILES.—Any motor vehicle operator in St. Louis, United States, either parked or speeding along a highway, or caught in a traffic jam, may now reach for his vehicular radiophone if he has become a subscriber to the city’s new service. He calls a “mobile operator” who connects him to a regular exchange where he can ask for a connection to any one of the nation’s 27,000,000-odd telephones. He will receive exactly the same service as any telephone subsciber calling from his home or office. St. Louis is the first, city to institute this service. The radiophone set is installed under the dashboard and is within easy reach of the front-seat occupants of the car.

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1946, Page 8

TELEPHONES FOR AUTOMOBILES.— Any motor vehicle operator in St. Louis, United States, either parked or speeding along a highway, or caught in a traffic jam, may now reach for his vehicular radiophone if he has become a subscriber to the city’s new service. He calls a “mobile operator” who connects him to a regular exchange where he can ask for a connection to any one of the nation’s 27,000,000-odd telephones. He will receive exactly the same service as any telephone subsciber calling from his home or office. St. Louis is the first, city to institute this service. The radiophone set is installed under the dashboard and is within easy reach of the front-seat occupants of the car.