WILL ASTONISH WORLD
Reeeived Friday, 12.45 a.m. LONDON, August 8. Air Vice-Marshal O. G. Lywood, formerly the Air Ministry's Director of Signals, has heen appointed managing director of a £100,000 research company which leading British cahle and telephone manufacturers formed with the object of assuring Britain 's position in supplying the world 's reciuirements for teiecommunications eciiupment. The compahy is already establishing lahoratories which will De staifed predominantly hy scientists who worked for the Air Supply Ministries developing radar and radio for the services. Air Vice-Marskal Lywood said he foresaw the day when a world-wide system of radio teleprinting would link husinessmen no matter how remote from each other. They would send and receive messages in their own otiices as easily and speedily as British firms at present communicated with each other through tha land line systems. British engineers would astonish the world .with the ingenuity which' they were bringing to bear in the most modern of industrial reyolutions.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1946, Page 5
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