HC Deb 18 June 1963 vol 679 cc43-4W
Mr. Gourlay

asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware of the urgent need for subscriber trunk dialling facilities at London Airport; and when he expects to transfer the Skybolt exchange to the subscriber trunk dialling system.

Mr. Bevins

STD was recently provided at Skyport exchange for subscribers' lines,

Telephone Area Order list at 31st March, 1963 Waiting list at 31st March, 1963 Waiting list as a percentage of total number of subscribers
Aberdeen 977 86 0.1
Bedford 3,264 1,178 2.0
Belfast 2,417 391 0.5
Birmingham 7,601 4,086 2.6
Blackburn 2,111 775 1.1
Bournemouth 1,395 184 0.3
Bradford 1,600 157 0.2
Brighton 3,689 983 0.8
Bristol 2,687 444 0.4
Cambridge 2,878 1,218 1.9
Canterbury 3,058 1,247 1.6
Cardiff 3,046 833 1.0
Chester 1,565 595 1.0
Colchester 1,622 303 0.6
Coventry 4,300 1,827 2.6
Dundee 540 36 0.1
Edinburgh 932 76 0.1
Exeter 973 11 0.02
Glasgow 3,168 652 0.4
Gloucester 1,338 399 0.8
Guildford 3,980 2,091 3.1
Lancaster 1,282 320 0.7
Leeds 2,524 664 0.7
Leicester 1,678 452 0.6
Lincoln 2,351 1,037 1.9
Liverpool 3,745 685 0.4
London/Centre 5,169 Nil Nil
London/City 3,169 Nil Nil
London/East 2,832 338 0.2
London/North 4,663 331 0.2
London/North West 3,918 Nil Nil
London/South East 3,182 18 0.001
London/South West 5,744 752 0.3
London/West 8,539 1,882 0.9
Manchester 9,299 3,405 1.5
Middlesbrough 1,508 350 0.6
Newcastle-on-Tyne 3,460 970 0.9
Norwich 963 206 0.5
Nottingham 2,121 231 0.2
Oxford 4,234 2,176 3.4

and the provision of STD coinboxes at the airport will begin at the end of this month. I am sure this will improve the telephone service at the airport.

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