Note 370 — Chapter XVII · The Spirit of the Civil Service
Reading edition
Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments, 1897; Mr. H. C. Fischer, Controller London Central Telegraph Office; q. 2,305.
The examination covers: (1) “Crossing and looping wires with facility and certainty. (2) Tracing and localizing faults in instruments. (3) Tracing and localizing permanent and intermittent earth contact and disconnection faults on wires. (4) Methods of testing the electro-motive force and resistance of batteries, and a general knowledge of the essential features of the various descriptions of batteries. (5) System of morning testing, both as regards sending and receiving currents, with the necessary calculations in connection with the same. (6) Making up special circuits in cases of emergency. (7) Joining up and adjusting single-needle, single-current, and double-current Morse, both simplex and duplex, and Wheatstone apparatus. (8) Fitting a Wheatstone transmitter to an ordinary key-worked circuit. (9) A general knowledge of the principles of quadruplex and multiplex working. (10) Measuring resistance by Wheatstone bridge.”
These subjects are the same as those prescribed for superintendents and assistant superintendents, but the examination is less severe.