WIRELESS TELEPHONE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 282, 2 December 1935, Page 7

WIRELESS TELEPHONE

WORLD CONFERENCE BIG BUSINESS TALK I British Official Wireless. ] RUG3Z, Nov. 28. A remarkible experi.nej; m the possibilities of world-wide com munication will be mile to-morrow when a mujtilateral conversation will be held between .the managing director of International Combustion, Ltd., in London, and the company’s representatives in Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and places in South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand. The conversation will at the same time he heard through the loud-speaker by more than SUOU of the firm’s employees in various centres. The Post Office desefibes the “call’ , as the ’argost wireless telephone order it has ever received. Tho success of this world-wide hookU P, «j l, 6giug by the clarity of the reception reported in Wellington, was icmurkable. It was the first time this new development in the use of radio was introduced to New Zealand in the fcria of a commercial conference linking the head office of a large manuz’a'ituring company with its agencies and branches throughout the world. Wellington and Auckland agents took part in. the conference, as well as interested engineers who were trying out the possibilities fur the first time. Similar commercial ccr-ferences, though ou a smaller scale, have been in use overseas in the form of a multiple wireless telephone talk linking more than t’vo points at a time. The wonderfully successful short-wave broadcast talk from all parts of the Empire at the opening of their Majesties’ Jubilee is still fresa in the public mind, but a similar equally world-wide talk by a commercial organisation purely for business purposes is new to New Zealand. lhe conference was arranged by MtLSis. International Combustion, Ltd of London, one of the largest steam generator, boiler manufacturing, ana power engineering firms in the world, ■;.> d’scuss their affairs with all their overseas branches and representatives. The Post Office authorities organised the connections, and arranged a number of combined speaking and listening etatious, as well as a larger number of listening stations only. The speaking stations were the head office of the company in London, also branches at Johannesburg, Bombay, Perth and Sjd ney. The listening stations were at the company 's wotk« at Derby, England. and at branches and agencies at Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Bulawayo, Calcutta, Adelaide, Melbourne, Wellington, and Auckland. The conference was at 1.15 p.m. Greenwich time, corresponding to 1.15 a.m. New Zealand time. The discussion occupied a continuous fifteen minutes, and speech was- perfectly clear throughout, except for a sjiort break in the Perth transmission. A certain amount of preliminary tuning was done beforehand and promptly at .the appointed moment speech came through clearly, being listened to* by headphones and ordinary telephones. The radio reception was through Wellington, and land line connections passed to Auckland through the telephone trunk exchange; such communications could have been made by this method anywhere in New Zealand through the telephone land lines. The International Combustion, Ltd., New Zealand representatives, Messrs. CoryWright and Salmon, Ltd., listened in at their Wellington and Auckland offices, and several power engineers were connected on their private telephones, in both Wellington and Auckland. This means of obtaining yrgent important decisions in world-wide commercial organisations, or even instantaneous imperative Imperial decisions, opens up wonderful possibilities of speedy action in emergencies. The success of this morning's conference marks great progress in wireless telephony.