WIRELESS ON TRAIN.
FIRST IN BRITAIN. MUSIC! FROM: SIX COUNTRIES. ;Elcl. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.; (Sydney Sun Cables.) URcee-ived January 25, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. The first British wireless train, specially equipped with super-heterodyne receiver-frame aerial, and twenty loud spe.ikers. run under the auspices of the Great Western Railway Radio Society, while journeying from Bristol to Cardiff, enaoled' every passenger to hear music in six different countries, including San Sebastian. 1000 miles distant. A steel bridge and the four-mile Severn tumid were, the only obstacles causing a complete fading out of the signals, which recovered full strength half a mile inside the. Cardiff end of the tunnel. While the train was siatiomny at Bristol Station, it heard Pittsburg dance music.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16942, 26 January 1926, Page 11
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121WIRELESS ON TRAIN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16942, 26 January 1926, Page 11
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