The post office and its story an interesting account of the activities of a great government department
Edward Bennett369Telegraph Street, E.C., 161 Telegraphists— Scales of pay, 173 In war, 336 Telephone Company, 183 Telephones— Effect on telegraph, 176 Early beginnings, 181 Parliament's action, 185 London service, 186 Decision to purchase, 187 Subscribers, 188 United States, 189 Long distance calls, 190, 193 Exchange, 191 Farmers, 193 Telephone-telegram business, 163 Telewriter, 177 Telford, 27 Teutonic, 213 Thomson, Sir William, 183 Threadneedle Street, E.C., 173 Tie-on labels, 94 Tilley, Sir John, K.C.B., 264 Tintagel, 301 Tranavoe, 81, 255 Travelling Post Office— Romance, 69 First service, 71 Apparatus, 75 Disasters, 79 Mail bags, 203 Oversea mails, 213 Treasury, 264 Trinidad, 328 Trollope, Anthony, 41, 52, 53, 267 Trouble-man, 190 Truth, 329 Tuke, Brian, 19 Tunbridge Wells, 22 Ulster, 218 Umbria, 213 Undelivered packets— Numbers, 110 Stories of, 113-123 South African War, 337 Underground wires, 178, 187, 190, 196, 199, 233 Uniform (see Post Office Uniform) Union Castle Line, 216 Union Postale, 227 United States— Letters to, 64 Money Orders, 131 Telephone service, 189 Weather, 190 Postal Union, 224 Postal service, 238 Postmaster-General's reports, 241 “Valeurs à recouvrer,” 236 Value-Payable Post, 253 Vienna, 228 Vigo, 214 Village Post Office— Described, 298 Architecture, 300 Villette, 67 Viner, Sir Robert, 45 Voe, 81 Von Stephan, Herr, 224, 226, 232 Waghorn, Lieutenant, 214 Walpole, Sir Spencer, K.C.B., 229, 265, 271 Washington, 228 Washington Evening Star, 228 Wayleave-getting, 197 Welby, Lord, 270 West, Sir Algernon, K.C.B., 270 West Indies, 84, 131 West Kensington, 68, 144 Weston-super-Mare, 287 Weymouth, 218 Wheatstone, Sir Charles, 182 Wheatstone apparatus— A B C, 155 Automatic, 155, 165 Transmitter, 165 Telephone, 181 White Star Line, 213 Wick, 326 Window man, 45 Wireless telegraphy, 178 Witherings, 35 Wolverton, Lord, 147 Women clerks— Savings Bank, 145 Conditions of service, 274 Wort, Mrs. Jane, 314 Written explanation, 310