MUSIC BY WIRELESS
SECOND EDITION
HEARL BY TRAIN PASSENGERS. SPECIALLY EQUIPPED RECEIVER. Received January 26, 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 25. Tho first British wireless train, specially equipped with a super-hetero-dyno receiver frame, aerial and 20 loud speakers, run under tho auspices of the Great Western Railway Radio Society, while journeying from Bristol to Cardiff, enabled every passenger to hoar music in six different countries, including San Sebastian, one thousand miles distant.
A steel bridge and tho four-mile Sovcrn tunnel were tho only obstacles, causing complete fading out of the signals, which recovered full strength half a mile inside tlio Cardiff end of tho tunnel. While the train was stationary at Bristol station it hoard Pittsburg dance music.—Sydney Sun.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 48, 26 January 1926, Page 8
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118MUSIC BY WIRELESS Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 48, 26 January 1926, Page 8
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