The building and equipping of the Birmingham new parcel and letter office is currently nearing completion. This is the most ambitious postal engineering project so far embarked upon by the British Post Office. It is a complex of mechanization equipment which, together with the associated control and signalling apparatus, will be accommodated over six floors of an imposing new building situated in the heart of the city of Birmingham. The paper does not attempt to describe the office in detail but, following a brief outline of the scheme, concentrates on those aspects of the installation which are novel in their application to postal engineering in the U.K.
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