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A list with suppliers of Pneumatic Tube Systems.

Many books on the past, the present and the future of the Pneumatic Tube Systems.

'Buispost' is the Dutch name for a Pneumatic Tube System. This website has been made in the Dutch language. You are now in the English section. The navigation and several pages have been translated already into English. The other pages will follow soon. My apologies for the possible grammatical errors, I hope you will inform me about them.

Pneumatic City Mail

The city mail by means of Pneumatic Tube Systems, was in the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century an important phenomenon. 'The destruction of the pneumatic city mail', a very nice Article from 1998, describes the arise of the Pneumatic City Mail in a number of European cities.

"Under numerous European metropoles lie broadly branched, pneumatic mini subway's gone to rust. Ever were these super-fast transport systems with a dia meter of seven centimetres, in which annually millions dispatches, letters and parcels zoomed back and forth.
Marten Minkema does not understand why… Read more »

The Pneumatic City Mail

As in the Article the destruction of the pneumatic city mail is described, Pneumatic Tube Systems were in much large cities in the world applied for the transport of mail. Here you see an overview of Pneumatic City Mail installations ordered by country. By city you find a description of the installation and also a gallery with unique photos of the technique, but also of letters, postcards and postage stamps!