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Post Office Training School, Dollis Hill, London. C/U of a machine which has been named “Galloping Gus“ by telephone engineers. It is a machine which simulates the mistreatment of telephones. The part of an old fashioned stick telephone that would normally be held to the ear is repeatedly banged on a table. A revolving disk with lots of these earpieces jiggles them up and down. This is supposed to represent “the treatment telephones sometimes get at the end of an unsatisfactory call.“ M/S of an engineer attaching an earpiece to a different machine. M/S of a man at a bank of controls which measures the electric current of noise. A woman speaks into an ordinary candlestick type Post Office telephone set, then into one of the new handset type 'phones. She says “One, two, three, four, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.“ C/U of a radio receiver. We hear how she sounds through the old type, then the new type. The sound is much clearer. M/S of man using a machine which tests the dials of auto
