HOTEL WITHOUT BELLS

Shannon News, 28 June 1927, Page 2

HOTEL WITHOUT BELLS

COLOURED LIGHT SIGNALS. One London hotel has declared bells out of date, and scrapped them by the hundred. This is the Savoy, where an entirely new system of coloured signals has replaced the old push bell method of summoning a servant. Except, for the telephone not a bell now sounds in the hotel. Under the new system there are three buttons in each room, coloured red, green and white, and these operate coloured lights in various parts of the hotel. Red stands for waiter; green for valet; and white for chambermaid. If a visitor desires to summon a waiter be presses the red button, and immediately a red light shows in four places: (1) outside his door; (2) at the corner of the corridor; (3) in the service room; and (4) in the manager’s room.

Special significance attaches to the light being shown (against the number of the room}- in the manager’s office, for it is possible for -the manager to see exactly how quickly or slowly—a call is answered.

“This system is something quite new; even America has nothing like it.” an official of the hotel said. “The installation is working perfectly, and we shall never go back to bells again. Visitors are delighted with It.”