LONG DISTANCE ’PHONE.
CANADA CALLS UP LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 28. An important advance in the development of the long-distance telephone was made yesterday, when a conversation took place between London and a train travelling across Canada at sixty miles an hour. In the office of the Canadian Natiohal Railways building in London, Mr C. Smith, European vice-president of the railway, exchanged greetings by radio telephone with Sir Henry Thornton, president of the railway, who was sitting in the "International Limited,” which was running between Montreal and Quebec. Arrangements had been made for the Prime Minister to speak, but atmospherics interfered with the conversation before the line could be connected with Chequers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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114LONG DISTANCE ’PHONE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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