ABSTRACT
The utility and advantage of the pneumatic system is well seen when its powers are compared with the wires. It has been proposed to convey letters by pneumatic dispatch between the General and Suburban Post Offices, and the Post Office authorities have even consulted engineers on the practicability of sending the Irish mails from London to Holyhead by this system. It was calculated, however, that although the scheme could be carried out, the proportion of expense for great speeds and long distances would be enormously increased. A plan of conveying, not telegraph messages, but parcels, was proposed and carried into effect some time ago, and more has been applied to lines of tubes in connection with the General Post Office. These tubes pass from Euston Station down Drummond Street, Hampstead Road, Tottenham Court Road, to Broad Street, St. Giles’s, whence, with a sharp bend, they proceed to the Engine Station at Holborn, and then to the Post Office.
