| The Post Office and the Telephone Companies | [219] |
| Telephones introduced into England. Judicial decision in favour of the department. Restricted licences granted the companies. Feeble attempt on the part of the department to establish exchanges. Difficulties encountered by the companies. Popular discontent with the policy of the department leads to granting of unrestricted licences. Way-leave difficulties restrict efficiency of the companies. Agreement with National Telephone Company and acquisition of the trunk lines by the department. Demand for competition from some municipalities leads to granting of licences to a few cities and towns. The department itself establishes a competing exchange in London. History of the exchanges owned and operated by the municipalities. Struggle between the London County Council and the company's exchange in London. Relation between the company's and the department's London exchanges. Agreement with the company for the purchase of its exchanges in 1911. Financial aspect of the department's system. |
CHAPTER XII
| Conclusion | [237] |
APPENDIX
| Expenditure and Revenue Tables | [243] |
| Bibliography | [253] |
| Index | [259] |
TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
| Acc. & P. | Accounts and Papers. |
| A. P. C. | Acts of the Privy Council. |
| Add. | Additional. |
| Cal. B. P. | Calendar of Border Papers. |
| Cal. S. P. | Calendar of State Papers. A. & W. I., Col., D., For., and Ire., added to Cal. S. P., indicate respectively to the America and West Indies, Colonial, Domestic, Foreign, and Ireland sections of this series. |
| Cal. T. B. | Calendar of Treasury Books. |
| Cal. T. P. | Calendar of Treasury Papers. |
| Cal. T. B. & P. | Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers. |
| D. N. B. | Dictionary National Biography. |
| Fin. Rep., 1797. | Finance Reports 1797-98. |
| Hist. MSS. Com. | Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. |
| Jo. H. C. | Journals of the House of Commons. |
| Jo. H. L. | Journals of the House of Lords. |
| Joyce. | Joyce, H. The History of the Post Office to 1836. |
| L. & P. Hen. VIII. | Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII. |
| Parl. Deb. | Hansard, Parliamentary Debates. |
| Parl. Papers. | Parliamentary Papers. |
| P. & O. P. C. | Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council. |
| Rep. Commrs. | Reports from Commissioners. |
| Rep. Com. | Reports from Committees. |
| Rep. P. G. | Reports of the Postmasters-General. |
| Scobell, Collect. | Scobell, H. A Collection of Acts and Ordinances made in the Parliament held 3 Nov., 1640 to 17 Sept., 1656. |
THE HISTORY OF
THE BRITISH POST OFFICE