Mr. Gresham Cookeasked the Postmaster-General why neither DIR, INF nor 100 could give the new subscriber trunk dialling code for the Basingstoke area on the night of Tuesday, 14th December.
§ Mr. BennS.T.D. to a wide range of other places became available at Basingstoke on 11th December. At the same time a start was made on a phased programme of introducing S.T.D. for calls to Basingstoke from other places. The arrangements for dialling Basingstoke numbers from London were completed by 15th December. Although it is now technically possible also to dial trunk calls to a number of the smaller exchanges around Basingtoke, the codes456W cannot be published for general use in London until more S.T.D. equipment is provided early in 1966.