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GPO Sidelights: Postal Order Sorting Machines
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| Caption | Postal Order Sorting Machines. Unsorted postal orders are fed into these machines several thousand at a time. A pneumatic finger lifts each order and a robot thumb and finger flicks it out upon a moving band. The orders move forward until the holes punched in them correspond with insulated studs on the track, then a trap door opens and the order falls into a receptacle underneath. When all the 1,000, 2,000, etc. series are sorted together, the orders are passed through again in a different position to be sorted in the 10,000, 11,000, etc. series. Each machine can deal with 12,000 orders an hour. (See also Card No. 41). One of a set of 50 cigarette cards on the subject of Interesting Sidelights On The Work Of The GPO published by Lambert and Butler in 1939. Lithographs based on photographs. |
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| Creator | English School (20th Century) |
| Artwork medium | colour lithograph |
| Credit | Look and Learn |
| Search stock images by keyword | GPO General Post Office postal services Post telecommunications phone telephone communications British English Britain England technology service industry 1939 Nineteen Thirties technological progress development science advances Postal Order Sorting Machines Unsorted postal orders machines thousand pneumatic finger robot thumb moving band holes insulated studs track trap door receptacle 000 10 11 12 orders hour GPO Sidelights |
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| M727024 | Hi-res: 5,488 x 2,915 pixels Lo-res: 1,372 x 729 pixels |
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