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Ref No 13267 Eastern

Sir,

RECEIVED

- 9 DEC 1927 LOL, OFFICE

Red Gables

Hornsea.

7th December 1927

I send herein a brief report on matters of pos- sible interest to Hong Kong, it contains various impres- sions I have gained as result of visits paid to places of interest, and experiments I have carried out whilst

on leave, my reason for writing now is to place this

information on record whilst it is fresh in my mind.

see 30262/27

exhast

broadcasting for long (12) 9/5 JAN 1925

прод

2. TelephoneeSystems.

The Hong Kong Telephone

Ordinance requires the Hong Kong Telephone Company to install new and improved exchanges within the area of its franchise, at an early date. Whilst in London, I

had an interview with the Manager of the Company, who has been obtaining tenders for suitable apparatus for installing in Hong Kong, these include tenders for Auto- matic Exchanges, the final type selected by the Company requires the approval of the Government before install-

ation. The two foremost types of Automatic Telephone Systems are the Strowder, which is the system adopted by the General Post Office for provincial towns in England, and the Western Rotary which is being adopted by Paris, and is in use at Hull Yorks. The Rotary is the more robust, the heavy work is done by machines which are

ly controlled by impulses originated by the Subscriber, whereas with the Strower all the work is done by electric magnets operated by battery currents, actuated also by the subscribers dials. The plain Strozer system is less

complicATED.

complete than the Rotary in as much as it works by simple step by step movements on a decimal principle while with

the Rotary the translations through the Registers with their

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