LONDON’S TELEPHONES
THE EMERGENCY CALLS STEPS FOR SPEEDING-UP (British OH'unai Wireless! RUGBY, Feb. 16. (Received Feb. 17, at 5.5 p.m.) The Post Office has made elaborate arrangements for effecting a considerable speed-up in London s emergency telephone calls in cases of fire, crirrte or accident as regards calls by private subscribers. In the near future a system will be introduced in areas served by automatic exchanges, by which, on a subscriber dialling a code number, the immediate attention of the operatorwill be secured by a visual signal and an audible alarm at the same time. Police stations, fire brigades and ambulance services are being linked by a newly : devised system reducing the operation of an emergency call to seconds, with a new type’ of street telephone pillar to be erected in large numbers throughout London.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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135LONDON’S TELEPHONES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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