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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5T, 1924
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AUTOMATIC CONTROL ON LONDON
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AUTOMATIC TELEPHONY.
DIRECT CALLS. BETWEEN
SUBSCRIBERS...
The General Post Office now regards
With the placing of the contmet for the equipment of the post offer tube rail- the experimental stage of automatic tele way in London the last phase of unphony as being over, and a start is interesting development in underground about to be made with the conversion of transport has been reached., The note the London lines to the automatic system worthy feature of the scheme by the of operation. For some years eighteen decision to dispense with the services of provincial towns-including Leeds, South- drivers on the train and to rely entirely ampton, Hereford, and Epson-have eas
joyed the conveniences of this
system; on a system of reniote control.
ani has long been in 11se at St. Martin's-le-Grand itself between the different, branches of the Post Office But there must be many readers who do not appreciate the difference between the present and the automatic systems, and without a clear perception of that they are unable to understand the time-saving which is inherent in the change, says the Manchester Guardian,
In regard to the general scheme of operation and centro, steel motor wagons, 50 in number, which may be used either singly or in trains of two or three wagons and each carrying a load of 1,120 lbs. will be operated between | the various stations either as stopping trains or as through trains between prin. ripal stations.
the trail leaves it, and
The platform sections of the conductor Most people probably remember the rails at the stations can be made, "dead" magneto system of calling the the by the switchman Each main section will change, in which the substriber turned always be made dead automatically, as the handle of a hand generator, and alive again then lifted the receiver to his ear to lis on the train entering the next section button. This was in course of sime, sue- one, there will always be a dead ceeded by the central battery system, section between following trains. Each now in universal operation, where the railway station will be equipped with subscriber merely lifts his receiver from duplicate motor generators (one working te rest. This action causes a lamp to and one as a standby) for operating the flow on the switchboard at the exchange. trains at about eight miles an host and An incident of this development was the qboltion of the manual ringing up of for control and fighting circuits.
the called subscriber, the telephonist at the exchange merely inserting a plug in an appropriate hole in the switchboard, bell continuously until an chaver is made. called subscriber's which rings the
POWER-OPERATED, SECTIONS..
The castrol of a train as it comes to tonsill be such as not to require the reat at a platform or passes through a
way stations.
continuous attention of the switchman. The position in the tunnels and the des tination of each train will be notified to this switchman on an illuminated dia. gram in the control calfins at the rail
The switchman will then arrange to receive the train. He will set power-operated point or the particular Foute desired, and will energise certain sections of the conductor rails with cur rent at the appropriate pressure. The train will then either come to rest at the predetermined section of the platform or, will ran through the station without far. ther attention.
It is obvious that there would be a very considerable saving of time if one subscriber could directly call up another, and this is what the automatic system enables him to do. But all the telephone instruments must first be changed, and the telephone directory will have to be adapted to the remaining of certain ex- charges and to a partial revision of the numbering system. A dial which will be attached to each instrument will bear the letters" of the alphabet, drranged in combination with figures; and a wheel over the dial, with al. spaces through which the dial Can be read, will be turned by subscriber to indicate the first three letters of the exchange be" requires and the four figures (always four figures, for mechanical reasons) of the desired num- ber. In cases where there are less than four figures ciphers must be prefixed to gain the mechanical effect. The auto-
the
On approaching a station the train (if it be required to stop at the station) will pass to a braking wetion which is nor inally death, then to sections in which the pressure of the conductor ruil in reduced | to give a speed of about eight miles an hour, and inally to a dead section within the station, when the brakes will be automatic signal received in return signifies matically applied and the train brought to rest. Retardation · and aceleration will be assisted by gradients Star the stations.
If the train be a" through" wain it will, on approaching a station. pass to a section in which the pressure is such as to give a speed of about right miles
whether the line is clear or engaged.
LONDON AND MANCHESTEX-
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These are the details of the automatic
system as applied to London, which has exchanges within the ten miles radius.
in the case of more compact cities like archester, where the exchanges are re-
an hour, at which sp it will pass half-atively few, it will not be necessary to
way through the station and then enter dial (for the system brings in a new verb) a section in which the pressure will cause
more than the first two letters of the exchange name. Why it has been decided the speed to încrede to 35 miles,,
to extend the automatio telephone to A train will be despatched from Londen forthwith rather than to, say, station by making alive the action of Manchester and Liverpool, where the the conductar rail on which it is stand-change-over would not have involved so ing, at a pressure of, 440 volts. Trains much labour and expense, is because the will be moved into and out of the sidingsproblems of the telephone in London in- and from one platform section to anotheréreuse and intensify in a peculiar degree, in a similar manner.
OLD LONDON.
THE EMIGRATION OF GREAT INSTITUTIONS.
One by one the great institutions of London are being emigrated, says the Morning Enst. Christ's Hospital, with its memories of Lamb, has been removed to Horsham: Charterhouse, with its mem- ories of Thackeray, is at Godalming; and the pillar which did duty at Seven Dials has to ix sought at Weybridge. Now it is the turn of "Bedlam" or more pro perly speaking the Hospital of the Order of the Star of Bethlehem," to go. Bedlam will not worry. It has been used to changes of this kind. It was establish ed in 1240 by Sheriff Simon Fitt-Mary; who founded it to have been a privy of canons with brethren and sisters, and at the Dissolution Henry VIII. gave it to the City of London. Quite a hundred and fifty years earlier lunatics, was con- fined there.
Fitz-Mary's hospital was pulled down in 1875 and removed to Moorfields at the cost of £17,000; and this in turn was abolished and the present building in St. George's Fields was erected, on the site of the Dog and Duck pleasure gardens. Little more than a hundred years elapsed since it got into working order.
Until the beginning of last century, Bedlam was one of the sights of London, an exhibition open to the public.
Step into Bedham (writes Pepya, who of course, saw everything and went every- where), where I saw several poor misèr. uble creatures in chains; one of them was mad with making verses.
MAL.
Nat Lee, the dramatic poet, was con- fined there, and Dryden, writing to a friend, recalls how Nat, then on the verge of madness, made a sober and witty answer to a bad poet who told him, It was an easy thing to write like a mad- No," said be, it is very diffi- cult to write like a madman, but it is very easy matter to write like a fool," Bedlam was a show place, like, the Tower and the Abbey, and even men like Dr. Johnson did not hesitate to walk through the wards. A writer in the
Tatler tells how he took three lads- arambling, in a hackney-coach, to show them the town; as the Lions, the Tombe, Bedlam, and the other places," which are entertainment to raw minds, because they strike forcibly on the Taney. Visitors were forbidden to give the patients strong drink or tobacco, or to sell any thing in the hospital. But it was bad ea- ough for visitors to be there at all-a hundred at least one Easter week who baving paid two pencé a piece ran up and down the wards making sport of the miserable inhabitants.
Other times, other manners-the Beth- lem Royal Hospital, now to be removed to the country, is a place of infinite care and infinite pity.
and every month's delay multiplies almost beyond calculation the labour and expense of change which must be made at last.
Even though the work is being started upon now, it will be long before even Landon can be said to have the automatic telepbone. Probably before the end of 1926 two London exchanges will be purely autoraatic, but it is expected that it will take 15 years to convert the whole of the
London telephore nrea to the system.
Perhaps if the House, of Commous is persuaded to make a generous grant for the purpose Manchester may be given the automatic telephone at least as soon as London, and thousands of valuable hours in the aggregate may be saved daily to the commercial community without b wasteful delay..
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