AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES
TWO LONDON EXCHANGES CHANGE FROM MANUAL SYStEM (Received March 7, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless s RUGBY. March 6 Eight thousand eight hundred subscribers to two London telephone exchanges, who make on an average about 350,000 calls a week, will participate in the largest single transfer to date in the conversion of the telephone service from the manual to the automatic system. Every circuit has been run into the old and new exchanges, and at 2 p.m. this afternoon 17,600 wedges will be simultaneously withdrawn, thus completing the contact of the new exchange and the subscribers' instruments. At the same time the circuits to the old exchange will be disconnected.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22671, 8 March 1937, Page 11
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111AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22671, 8 March 1937, Page 11
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