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P.L.M. ALPHA-NUMERIC LANGUAGE

LETTER GROUP VARIANT

'Bov CHATEAU MONT ROU VILLE In many departements there could be towns

MAR PONT VER CANNES starting with the same letter group or
----- ------------------ - -------CHA syllable. To distinguish such towns the third

column of the indexation was allocated one of

the above letter group transcriptions. The
fourth and fifth columns then picked up the
next two letters of the town.

Monsieur --0 L BOU 2 6
Tribunal d'Instanc e de Boulogre
Hotel de Ville - --- --- ---- ---
62 BOULOGNE s. Mer
Boulogne-Billancourt to
Bou logne-sur-Mer
24 April 1972

f o)~e-c1f;Wt-t_

/!~ - l:!f;+

Vitry-sur-Seine to Villejuif - - --- --- - ---u J VILLE 4 9
25 January 1972

The group variant BOU enables differentiation between Boulogne,
BourIon and Bouvigny-Boyeff les in Pas-de-Calais. The variant
VILLE enables differentiation between Villejuif, Villecresnes, and