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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ics in good-as-new condition. Among the many special tools Last year, also, more than 38 mil- standardized for installation use werelion feet of drop wire was reclaimed hydraulic trucks, power-driven recip-and given a new lease on life. Tele- rocating saws, portable test oscilla-phone company installers saved wire tors and a new winch-type hoist fortaken out of service aswell as the unusableshort lengths left overat the ends of coils,then sent them to West-ern distributing housesto be inspected, splicedtogether, and vulcan-ized. With 38,000coils of drop wire re-turned to service bythis method, the BellCompanies chalked upa net saving of nearly$10 on each coil. Responsibi/ify forInstallation The job of installingmost of the central-office equipment andlarger PBXs used bythe Bell System—theerecting, assembling,wiring, and testing ofthe units shipped fromWesterns plants—fallsto the Installation or-ganization. Here, too,emphasis is on economyas well as quality andservice. Westerns in-
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The new hoist being operated by the mafi on the floor lifts shelves of step-by-step switches^ and can be set up by one man in a few minutes—as compared with an outmoded type which took two men yiearh an hour to erect i8o Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN raising units of step-by-step centraloffice equipment in position. Long shelves of step-by-stepswitciies are far too heavy to belifted by hand, and a mechanicaldevice is required to do the work.The hoist used for many years wasmoved from job to job in four pack-ing cases, plus two 12-foot lengths ofmetal. The device weighed 600pounds and it took two men nearlyan hour to set it up. Not long ago, installation engineerscame up with a new hoist thats sosimple the proverbial child can oper-ate it. It weighs about one-fifth asmuch, packs entirely in a single case,can be set up by one man withouttools in a few minutes, and costs con-siderably less than the hoist it re-places. In these days of high constructioncosts, space in new central offic

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