NEW RADIO WONDER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 9

NEW RADIO WONDER

CONVERSATIONS WITH F.AST TRAIN EXPERIMENT IN CANADA United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 11.10 a.m. RUGBY, Monday. An important advance in the development of the long-distance telephone was made yesterday when a conversation took place between London and a train travelling across Canada at 60 miles an hour. In the office of the Canadian National Railways Building in London. Mr. C. Smith. European vicepresident of the railway, exchanged greetings by telephone with Sir Henry Thornton, president of the railway, who was sitting in the "International Limited.” which was running between Montreal and Quebec. Arrangements had been made for the Prime Minister to speak, but atmospherics interfered with the conversation before the line could be connected with Chequers. ABOARD THE TRAIN 1 A message from Montreal says Canada today took a commanding lead in the scientific race when these twoway wireless telephone conversations between people on a moving train and others in cities on the North American continent and Britain were successfully accomplished. The train travelled 334 miles in 360 miuutejj. its speed at times being 70 miles an hour. The new system was demonstrated by a group of Cauadian and American journalists. Sixty calls wer« sent out from the speeding train, and conversations were as clear and distinct as those over any other telephone. The process was perfected and manufactured by the chief engineer of the Canadian National Railways, Mr. J. C. Barkholder.