B.R.S. Instal Better Teleprinters
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IMPROVED Creed teleprinters have been installed by British Road Services in the London centre. In 1953, the facsimile method was adopted as a means for sending messages between London and various depots. Messages to be transmitted by facsimile are first wrapped around a drum and at the press of a button the machine scans the message, transmits it over ordinary telephone wires and an exact copy is reproduced at the receiving end.
The machine is smaller than a typewriter. and is more accurate than a teleprinter. The improved facsimile machines will receive messages automatically on continuous-feed paper rolls and transmit direct from the copies coming in by long-distance teleprinter. The continuous facsimile recorder is believed to be the first of its kind put to everyday commercial use.
Another new development is the use of three-gang multiple autcimatic message transmitters for sending messages over tape relay channels. They are arranged so that each channel has two sending heads. An automatic control unit alternates the heads so that messages follow one another in a fraction of a second.
This specialized equipment is helping to seed up B.R.S. teleprirger messages and reduce the cost of communications.
NEW SERVICE SAVES TIME
THE East Midland Licensing Authority has approved a new express service between Newark and Leicester to be jointly operated by Gash and Sons, Ltd., Newark, and Barton Transport, Ltd., Chilwell. Mr. L. W. A. White, for the applicants, said that the companies in effect already carried people between the two towns, hut passengers had to change at Nottingham. The new journey time would he 1+ hours, whereas it was formerly 2 hours 20 minutes.
The service will run every two hours on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.