THE MARCONI CONTRACT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 7

THE MARCONI CONTRACT.

NO POST OFFICE INSPECTION, By Tclecraph—l'rcss Association—CJoDrrishi' London, November 4. Giving evidence before the Parliamentary Seleot Committee set up tq inquire regarding tlio contract between the British Post Office and the Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company for the erection of wireless stations, Sir • Alexander King, K,C,B„ General Secretary. t& the Post ' Offite, admitted that while negotiations were in progress lio evidence was- given thai; Mariioni instruments \Vero capable of sending fifty words a minute according to ccmt+act, but a demonstration ivas mised. No post office experts inspected ■the-Marconi stations. It was realised that if after the Marconi stations were built the Poulsen system proved the more effec-, live. it- could be substituted at an outlay ' of .£13,000 per station. Ho admitted that -a' contract had been entered into betivee'n. the post office and Sir, .Godfrey Isimcs her 'fore the final terms were submitted to ■'the Admiralty and the War Office, The Contract was perfectly clean, and no political pressure had been cwrftisid, Sii AJexmider added that as : £txi- as the post Office was concerned Sir Tiufus Isaac's (At- ■ tornoy-Genera.l) was ignorant of t-hB whole thing.