TELEPHONE FROM TRAINS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1929, Page 12

TELEPHONE FROM TRAINS

ENGLISH EXPERIMENTS. London, June 13 Railway authorities in this country are watching closely the developments which have taken place in Canada in connection with the application cf wireless telephony to the needs of the business passenger. Their intention is to experiment with the Innovation here in the light of the results which are being obtained overseas, and should present indications be fulfilled the day is not far distant when a passenger from Glasgow to London will be able to carry on his business during the journey through a telephone very similar to that on his own desk at home. The Dominion authorities have succeeded so far beyond their expectations, and are already planning telephone installations in a number of trains over short distances. Briefly, the procedure is the linking of the tram telephone with a switchboard in a rear coach. The operator there inquires for the number in the usual way, and communicates with the nearest receiving station by wireless, the call in turn being passed through to the ordinary telephone exchange. Calls from “1 erra firma” to moving trains have also been put through satisfactorily by reversing the process.