THE TELEPRINTER
TYPING BY ’PHONE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 23. Stir Kingsley Wood, PostmasterGeneral, speaking this evening at Birmingham, said the Post Office hoped to introduce in a few months a remarkable new service which was the result of the work and skill of British inventors, It would be known as a Teleprinter Exchange Service. Xne new method would enable a message to be typewritten automatically between the offices of any two telephone subscribers at any distance from one another who had teleprinter machines installed. A typist in one office would type the message, and it would be printed simultaneously on both machines, so that both subscribers would have a complete typed record of an the communications they exchanged. These machines provided a safeguard against wrong connections. He hoped the service would he available to London subscribers by the spring, and to subscribers in the provinces by the summer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1932, Page 5
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