Mysterious Voice

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 July 1911, Page 4

Mysterious Voice

HOW THE LONDON TRAMS J OOI'E WITH CROWDS. A mysterious, deep-toned voice, which might have 'belonged to an invisible giant, startled .pa-ssengers waiting for tramway-ca.r.s in the new C|ueue station at the Blackfriars end of the Embankment in London a few weeks ago. It gave uncanny directions from the roof. The voice represented the latest development in tramway organisation—an installation of two'megaphono telephones, from which are announced the destination and vacant seating capacity of tho .approaching cars. The queue station, enabled an acceleration of the services to be made, and is about seventy yards long, and provides fur three queues of people. Two megaphones arc fixed in the roof, above the two exists, and a tramway inspector stands ready to chain off or release the moving queue. Another inspector, about 100 yards nearer the coming cars, is in charge of a telephone fixed to a lamp post. Ho informs the queue inspector of the destination and capacity of the cads. "Claphani (18 vacancies." says the magapliono. and tho inspector counts out f>B passengers in tho queue and fixes the chain against the rest. The telephone, the work of Messrs Alfrod Graham and Co., of Sydenham, has its producing power intensified by special device, , ;, and yet aojain magnified by tine magapliono trumpet overhead.'