LIGHTS AS PAGES
Guests at a new hotel recently opened in London, England, are "paged" by their_room numbers instead of by name (says Popular Science). They do not, however, hear a bell boy rushing through the lobby shouting for them. Instead, an electric indicator on a wall of each public room flashes their number. A notice above the indicator box states that there is a message waiting for them at the inquiry office. Four sets of numbers can be flashed by each indicator, so four guests can be called at one time. Guests, it is said, find this system an improvement on the old method of paging by bell boys, since the boys often mispronounced their names so that they were unrecognisable. The lights come on in each of the public rooms simultaneously. A guest has no excuse for missing a call, provided he can remember his room number and sees the signal. _______*———
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3303, 30 May 1931, Page 7
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153LIGHTS AS PAGES Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3303, 30 May 1931, Page 7
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