MANUAL TO AUTOMATIC
TRANSFER OF ’PHONES
GROUP IN LONDON
(British Official Wireleaß.) Reed. 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, March 6. A total of 8800 subscribers to two London telephone exchanges, who make on an average about 3E0,C00 calls weekly, will participate in the largest single transfer to date in the successive conversion of the telephone service from the manual to automatic system. Every circuit has been run into the old and new exchanges, and at two o clock m tle afternoon, 17,600 wedges will be simultaneously withdrawn | completing the contact of the new exchange with the subscribers’ instruments, while at the same time the circuits to the old exchange will be disconnected.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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110MANUAL TO AUTOMATIC Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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