§ 44. Lieut.-Colonel STOTTasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that dissatisfaction exists among telephone subscribers with the present method of registering the number of telephone calls; that a machine has been invented by Messrs. Anderson and Hunts-worth which registers the effective calls on the subscribers' premises; and whether he proposes to adopt and fit these machines?
§ The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)The present method of registering calls, which is the same as that adopted in America, is the most satisfactory that has yet been devised. The invention referred to has already received careful consideration. It is not proposed to adopt it, as, apart from other serious drawbacks, it would place a prohibitive drag on the telephonists' work, and the apparatus and method of working it at the subscribers' premises are too complex.