THE TIME BY 'PHONE.
POPULARITY IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) ’ RUGBY, July 24. A year ago the Post Office instituted a service by' which on dialling “time” were connected with a device which automatically repeated, for them the correct time. The automatic clock has answered 13,300.000 calls in its first year, and the average number of calls per week is now 300,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 202, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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62THE TIME BY 'PHONE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 202, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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