Before Elandslaagte most of us had begun to know the stay-at-home strategist and arm-chair critic. ... The Methuen incident ... has brought him to the front again. ... Does he not haunt the club tape, and, taking every newcomer a little apart, shows how it ought to have been avoided easily, how there was rashness, my good Sir, rashness?
Though I stood for hours at the club tape, my hair standing up on end and my eyeballs starting from their sockets, Jaguars still came through steadily at 1 1⁄16.
1915, William Le Queux The Mysterious Three (London : Ward, Lock) "Chapter Twenty Eight : The Unknown To-morrow." p. 292
She snatched a paper from the nearest boy, but it contained only the news we had just read on the club tape.
[1959] 1978, P. G. Wodehouse A Few Quick Ones (London : Barrie & Jenkins) The Word in Season→ISBNp. 93:
And he could pick that up by slapping his ten on Hot Potato in the two-thirty at Haydock Park. ... He made the investment, accordingly, and at two-forty-five was informed by the club tape that he was now penniless.
[1984] 2006, Leslie Thomas, In my Wildest Dreams→ISBN (London : Arrow) p. 392
There was a special Club Tape which went to London Clubs upon which the Stock Exchange prices, other City news and the cricket and racing results were of paramount importance.
1944 February 26, "Calling the Forces" The Times (London)
The introduction of news bulletins, sometimes only in the form of brief headlines, at almost hourly intervals may be received with mixed feelings by some home listeners who, perhaps distrusting their own self-restraint, hold that there have always been far too many temptations to listen to the news. They will recognize, however, that the chief reason for this translation of club tape into sound is that it will give men on active service, wherever they may be, the greatest possible opportunity to keep abreast of general events.
[1966] 1967 William Clark Number 10 (Boston : Houghton Mifflin) p. 43
It had been decoded by machine and was still only in the form of a long roll of paper such as comes off a club tape-machine.
1971 October 29, "Miscellany" The Guardian (London) p. 13 c. 3:
The Press Association club tape service always starts its morning and afternoon transmissions with the test line : "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
1991, Bernard Ingham, Kill the Messenger (London : HarperCollins) →ISBNp. 170
Most of her knowledge of what was going on in the world was imbibed from the BBC’s ‘Today’ programme (except when she cut herself off from its mischief), the Press Association club tape outside her Private Office, which Mr Attlee had apparently regarded as the cricket score machine, and her staff.
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