New cordless toll board at Amsterdam
14 January 1934
The new toll exchange, considerably larger than the existing one, deals not only with the regular toll traffic to and from the city of Amsterdam, but also with a considerable part of the international calls of the whole of Holland, and with the radio traffic to and from the Dutch East Indies as well as with ship-to-shore calls. It is constructed for an initial equipment of 920 toll lines and is connected to the seven principal local automatic exchanges by a total of 700 automatic toll switching trunks. Besides the above equipment there are 200 direct toll subscribers' lines, 200 booth lines and a number of trunks to the special radio link board in the same building. In the future subscribers of the Amsterdam district can automatically reach all subscribers in the home district, and also those in all surrounding districts. Furthermore, they can eventually be connected via the rapid toll positions with all subscribers in the whole country and via the regular toll positions to any international toll lines.