1876    W. H. Preece  & J. Sivewright  v. 128  				Between London and Amsterdam there are 130 miles of land wire over the Great Eastern Railway, then a cable 120 miles long, and then 20 more miles of land wire.
1908     24 Feb. 4/1  				The..cable from Ascension touches land in Cornwall.., whence a land-wire passed the signals on to Greenwich.
1930     23 Jan. 7/6  				A microphone was installed at 10 Downing Street, and the Premier's words were carried by land wire to Chelmsford.