"TIME PLEASE" CALLS
(Briligh OfliciaJ WireleBa.)
Automatic Clock Very Busy
RUGBY, July 21. A ycar ago the Post Olfico instituted a service by which subscribers on dialling ' 'time' ' were conuected with a device which automatically repeatcd for them the correct titne. The automatic clock has answered 13,300,000 calls in its first year, and the avcraco uumber of calls vqv "iveck is now 300,000.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 162, 27 July 1937, Page 9
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