COTTESLOE TELEPHONES, Changing to Automatic System.

[Lucifer]

Western Mail Sat Jan 4 1930

COTTESLOE TELEPHONES,
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Changing to Automatic System.

At 2 p.m. today if all goes well, the Cottesloe
telephone system will be converted to automatic
working. During the change
subscribers may hear a sharp ring on their
telephones but they are requested not to answer it.
If they do they will get no result. The Deputy Director
of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Roberts)
requests that telephones at Cottesloe shall not be
used for about 10 minutes after 2 p.m., except for
urgent calls in order that the transition from the old
to the new system may be done effectively.

The conversion from the old to the automatic method
will be carried out simply. Half a
dozen men in the old exchange at Cottesloe will pull
on wires which will pull out all the protecting fuses
and disconnect the old exchange. Another half
a dozen men in the automatic exchange will pull out
a number of wooden plugs (which are now
Preventing the new system from operating and the new
system will come into play.

The automatic system installed in the Cottesloe
circuit (in a building near the Claremont fire station)
is an modern as the newest of the automatic exchanges
in the Eastern States and is more Modern than the Perth
exchange. The system in British and
was installed by a Liverpool firm. Most of the
telephonic installations in Australia in the past have
been American. The plant is worth about £30,000,
including dynamos batteries and 1,000 miles
of Wires, and the whole Installation including plant,
represents a cost of about £50,000. It has capacity
for 2,000 subscribers.

The Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs stated
yesterday that to ensure the satisfactory working
of the new system, the following should be observed.
(1) Receivers of the old telephones should not be lifted
from the' book after 2 p.m. today (2) Telephone
directories or other articles should not be hung on the
old telephone handles. (3) Call letters are shown on the
centre of the dial adjacent to the relative finger hole.
Call figures are shown under the dial finger holes.
Each finger hole represents both a letter and a
figure. (4) Before dialling, subscribers should
lift the receiver of the new telephone. Do not.
lift old telephone receivers at all. (5) Use the new
call letter "F" before Cottesloe numbers.

For the benefit of persons who are not familiar
with the use of the automatic telephone
system the Telephone Department cites the
following example of calling:- The call for the
Claremont municipal Council is shown in, the directory
an FA83, with F1536 alongside. The second
number must be used. The call letter "F" is
obtained in the same manner as the figure 3.
Therefore the council would be raised by
dialling 31536.

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