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AUSTERLITZ 1
ALPHA-NUMERIC LANGUAGE

LETTER GROUP VARIANT

BOU CHATEAU MONT ROU VILLE Some departements could have

MAR PONT VER CANNES several towns starting with the same
------ ------ -- - - - - ----- --- -CHA group of letters or syllable. To
1 2 3 4 56 7 8 9 0 distinguish such towns the third

column of the indexation was

al located one of the above letter
group transcriptions. The fourth and
fifth columns then picked up the next
two letters of the town. The stroke
patterns are identical to those used

for the departement number.

R. so uv1~

REPR~SENT 1'1 r
UREAU : 57, ue Victor ~ ugo
l YON - T41. 37-23-69

Sieges G. 11.C .

8 , rue Rene Thibert
94 - VILLEJUIF

Lyon to Villejuif 2May1968 - - -- ---- -- ---u J VILLE 49

The variant VILLE enables the coding desk operator to
differentiate between VILLEJUif, VILLECResnes, and

VILLENEUve-St-Georges in the departement of Val-de-

Marne.

Note the identical stroke pattern for VILLE and for the

figure 9 of the departement.