Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

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Trust, Ltd. The contract includes credits in goods to the amount of £300,000 and a
cash loan to the amount of £250,000.
The telephone systems covered by these works comprised a total of 10,900 subscribers.
After the modernisation of the telephone installations, there was a rapid increase
—up to 16,400 or, 53 %—in the number of subscribers in those exchanges which
had been made automatic.
At present, automatic exchanges are being installed with a total capacity of
8,800 numbers and inter-urban exchanges. The works in question comprise :
(1) The regional system of the Dabrowa Basin and the suburban system of
Warsaw-Otwock;
(2) The extension of the exchanges at Katowice, Gdynia, Torun and Rabka;
(3) The inter-urban exchange at Warsaw and various other exchanges.
The total cost of these works was as follows :
Zloty
1. Automatic exchange and urban systems 4,756 > 000
2. Regional cable systems 2,200,000
3. Inter-urban exchanges 3,762,000
Total... 10,718,000
Provision has been made for the construction in the near future of new automatic
exchanges (15,000 instruments)—namely :
(1) The suburban system of Grodzisk-Milanowek, Skolimow and others;
(2) Urban exchanges at Poznan and Wilno, and the further extension of the
exchanges at Katowice and Gdynia.
The estimated expenditure on these works is as follows :
Zloty
1. Automatic exchanges and urban systems 6,960,000
2. Regional cable systems 1,700,000
Total... 8,660,000
Among the works enumerated above, those connected with the regional system and
the coal-basin are deserving of special attention.
The Upper Silesian system will constitute, with that of Dabrowa, now under
construction, a single regional system for the whole of the coal-basin, with its 670,000 inha¬
bitants. _ . .
The system will comprise land cables totalling 92 kilometres. It will include 14 auto¬
matic exchanges, 3 of which—at Katowice, Chorzow and Sosnowiec are junction
exchanges; the other 9 auxiliary exchanges connect directly with their respective j unction
exchanges. The total capacity of the system actually installed is 16,400 numbers. There
are at present, in the coal-basin system, about 10,800 subscribers.
During the six-year period envisaged for the modernisation of the telephone systems,
the following works are to be carried out:
& Zloty
1. Automatic exchanges and urban systems with a total
capacity of about 44,300 numbers, at an expenditure of.... . 39,313,000
2. Inter-urban exchanges, comprising a total of 885 cir¬
cuits and 203 posts, at an expenditure of 4,028,500
3. Regional systems, comprising a total of 150 kilo¬
metres of cables, at an expenditure of 7,400,000
Total... 50,741,500