Speaking Clock is Seventy

The Speaking Clock, which tells the time to thousands of UK callers each day, is celebrating its 70th birthday.

The service, which is available on dialling the number 123, was founded in 1936 and went nationwide in 1942.

The accuracy of the time given has improved from within one-tenth of a second to within five-thousands of a second - or five milliseconds.

BT says the clock itself is "the size of a small suitcase", compared with the first clock which was about 8ft long.

In all, 70 million calls every year are made to the service.

This cartoon was quick and simple.In the style of newspaper funnies. No colour, little hatching. Thanks to Caliope once again for the inspiration (you see I do read your posts).