A thousand sparks are on the air
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THE South Eastern Electricity Board at Hove, Sussex, serves a population of some four million people in an area of 3000 square miles. Allocation of an increased number of radio channels by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to the fuel and power industries, together with major reorganisation of the Board's internal structure has enabled a more comprehensive and flexible system of VHF radio-telephone control to be provided by the 1000 mobiles in the fleet. When the new system is complete, each of the Board's 14 districts and three engineering groups will have its own independent radio channel which will be controlled during normal working hours by the relevant district or group staff.
Outside normal working hours, the power network is operated, and consumer calls are dealt with, by three centres, one in Surrey, one in Kent and one in Sussex. Each of these centres has direct access to the radio systems of its associated districts, so radio communication to any of the Board's mobiles is possible throughout 24 hours.
Vehicles in the fleet of mobiles include private cars, Land-Rovers, heavier fourwheeled vehicles up to 16-ton-gross and low-loaders. The Land-Rovers are employed for servicing overhead lines and the bigger four-wheelers for delivering equipment, while the low-loaders are in the main used
for carrying transformers. P.B.