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THE PNEUMATIC-TUBE ROOM. GENERAL POST OFFICE. LONDON What the great railways are lo the work of (he Post Olficc throughout the United Kingdom, ths Pneumatic-Tube lines are to the work of the department in the Post Office itself and in the London district. Pneumatic tubes are carried for long distances, and can be taken up and down hill and round the corner without any interference with their usefulness. Through them are transmitted, like a pea through a pea-shooter, small cases filled with rolls of telegraph forms or other documents, and by their use much repetition of messages is avoided The tongue of scandal says that not infrequently mice and such small deer have made passages through the pipes. consigned and received by mischievous and idle telegraph boys, if such thing, there be.

Date

between 1897 and 1899

Source

The Queen's Empire. Volume 3. Cassell & Co. London

Author

Various photographers for Cassell & Co.

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