AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES
Before tho war the British Post Offico had embarked on the conversion of soveral telephone exchanges from manual to automatic working. The substitution of machinery for the telephone girl proved so. successful that the Department is certain to continue its interrupted programme. The automnlic principlo is also being used for inter-communication telephones in large factories, business houses, (hospitals, and so on, and a number of British firms are fully equipped for the production and installation of the apparatus. Australia lfouso, the headquarters of the CommonHealth Government, is equipped with automatic telephones, which- give a rapid and secret service equal to that of a public exchange in miniature.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 10
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109AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 10
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