RADIO IN BRITAIN.
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE IN LICENCES. WIRELESS TELEPHONES USED BY POLICE. BUGBY, August 11. The total number of wireless licences in the United Kingdom at the end of July was 7,718,557, as compared with 7,146,329 a year ago. The increase indicates the continued growth of public interest in wireless, and large attendances are expected at the Radio Exhibition which opens at Olympia in a fortnight’s time. There is special curiosity among the buying public this year to see the television sets which the wireless trade is likely to be showing in anticipation of the opening of the television service.
Widespread utilisation of wireless for police work has taken a new form in Lancashire, where the first police horse has been equipped with a receiving and transmitting set to be used for traffic control. The whole equipment weighs only 6 pounds, and the transmitting set has its own call sign and a range of several miles. The Lancashire police force is the only police force in the country which has a two-way wireless telephonic system working in connection with a fleet of police cars.—(British Official Wireless).
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Wairarapa Age, 13 August 1936, Page 5
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