THE NEW ELECTRIC POST.

West Coast Times, Issue 1249, 30 January 1903, Page 4

THE NEW ELECTRIC POST.

The British Postmaster-General has decided to send an engineer to Italy to report upon the electrical post invention of Signor Piscic9lli Tseggi, who claims that his system will do away with transmission of correspondence by rail, as well as with postmen. The general conception of the near system — by which the collection ia made automatically, tho distribution, and practically the sorting, are greatly simplified, while the service can go on continuously -is to have a small electric railway, made of steel wires over which light vehicles are to run at a speqd of 250 miles an hour. These wires, which would be supported by poles, would be used as conductors of tbo current, a? well as rails, and the current by passing continuously across the wheels of tbe vehicle, puts in motion a motor connected with the vehicle, which is drawn along. The wires or lines would be divided into sections, one set connecting with tho most important towns, while othar wirss branch from the 'main' line to town 9of lesser importance, and from these towns other wires branch off to tbe localities within it limited radius. The posting boxes would be placed inside light column*, to be termud post collect ing boxes, and every ten or fifteen would be connected on their upper parts with a single serial line joined up to the central post office of the district. At intervals of fiVd minutej an empty box would start fnmi the post office, and on reaching the ftfjt collecting pole, stop there acd open automatically, which movement would raise the posting box iusidp the column to the collectiug box, and the lettets would be transferred to the latter, As soon as the posting box was empty it would descend, and the collecting vehicle close, aud resume its journey, performing the same operations at each collecting box, until it reached ilia ceutral post office again.

W. J. Ren ton, Surgeon Dentist, Hamilton street, Hokitilia, (opposite the Fire Brigade Station). Hours— 9 a-n to 5 p m . — Advt

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