Taxi Firm Instals Mobile Radio In Cars
AUCKLAND, Dec. 19. ' The first commercial installation of a mobile radio designed and built in New Zealand was opened at Onehunga on Saturday by the PostmasteriGenera) (Mr. Haekett). Mobile units are installed in three cars of an' Onehunga taxi serviee and they keep in constant communication with a central station in the despatcher's oifice at the taxis' base. . " It is estimated that by' the nse of the radio th,e three cars are able to do the woi'k of four through the. cutting down of the anrount of dead running. previouslv dcine. The eompapy shrves a wide and sparselv settled atea in the Onehunga and Mangere districts, and ; the flat ground and the necessity • of making long runs to various fares makg- it an ideal place for a radio ■ installation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 December 1948, Page 5
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136Taxi Firm Instals Mobile Radio In Cars Chronicle (Levin), 20 December 1948, Page 5
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