TELEPHONE PROGRESS
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN LONDON British Official Wireless (Received March 7, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 6. Eight thousand subscribers to two London telephone exchanges, who make on an average about 350,000 calls weekly, will participate in the largest single transfer to date in the successive conversion of the telephone service from the manual to the automatic systeml Every circuit has been run into the old and new exchanges, and at two o’clock in the afternoon, 17,600 wedges will be simultaneously withdrawn, thus completing contact of the new exchange subscribers’ instruments, while at the same time, the circuits to old exchanges will be disconnected.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20670, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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104TELEPHONE PROGRESS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20670, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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