MAIL SORTING PLANT
AUSTRALIAN INVENTION
INSTALLED IN SYDNEY G.P.O.
SYDNEY, 17th September,
An elaborate mail-sorting plant, which has occupied many months to install in the Sydney General Post Office, and has cost £120,000, is now in operation. An experiment carried out with 50,000 dummy letters revealed 100 per cent, elßciencv.
The whole thing is automatic and is purely an Australian invention. There are a hundred electric motors employed in the mechanism.
Such of tho cable news on this page sa 13 so headed has appeared in "Tho Times" and is cabled to Australia and New Zealand liy special permission. It should be understood that, the opinions arc not those of. "'the Times" unless ciprcsslj stated to be so.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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118MAIL SORTING PLANT Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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