The Archive · 1929

The Automatic Telephone

Pacts About the System Being Installed in Shanghai Dating the discussion of the Tele phone Co.'s service and management the autocratic system which is being installed in Shanghai has cot for a good deal of criticism particularly on the ground that it is one which has been discarded elsewhere. This assertion has been contradicted by the Telephone Ca. The further statement reaches us from Mr, Edward C, Richardson, vice-president of the Internation: Standard Electric Corporation, setting forth some facts about the: system which is being installed in Shanghai, There are but two principal sys-toms of automatic telephony in general use at present. One is the power driven non-decimal system Yepresented by the Panel and Rotary types of equipment; the other is the Step-by-Step decimal system commonly referred to as the Strowger type of equipment, Both systems will operate satisfactorily and it should be noted that the Suppliers of the Shanghai Rotary equipment are currently manu facturing and selling both Rotary 1d. Step-by-Step.

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