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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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ents also per-formed a sizable job in handling thenecessary changes in billing and list-ing records. Because of the large number ofchanges in the PBX equipment, it 3i8 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER was necessary for the Traffic Depart- erators the day of the consolidation,ment to conduct an extensive training For the comparatively few indi-program for PBX operators. All vidual and party-line customers whooperators affected were visited by had no duplicating Bell service, it wasBell traffic representatives, and were necessary to make new Bell installa-given comprehensive training where tions, connecting Bell lines to Key-new switchboards had been installed stone instruments where they wereor where old boards had been modi- re-usable and then inserting heat coilslied to any large extent. in the Bell circuits at the time of the About 120 tons of copperwire were salvaged from theCarhden t^ Atlantic line.Pictured is one of five car-loads shipped to the Nas-sau Smelting and RefiningCompany
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Prior to the cut-over, the largeusers had been provided with addi-tional Bell lines. Some of these wereso arranged at the central office thatthey could be put in service by insert-ing heat coils in the circuit. In othercases dummy plugs were placed inthe trunk jacks on the PBX switch-boards, which were removed by op- cut-over. Then, at the proper time,it was necessary only to close the cir-cuits in the Bell offices, while in theKeystone offices the fuses were re-moved, shutting off the power. Usable Keystone instruments weremodified by providing new dial faceplates and new number plates, thelatter having the Bell numbers un- I945~4^ 7)/^^/ Telepho)ic Service Fjuis i)i PhUadelphia 319 ilcrnciith with tcinporarx Kc\ stoneplates on top, which were removedby the customers after the cut-over. The climactic moment camepromptly at 7 a.m., with Carl R.IVeehafer, vice president anil gen-eral manager, I^astern Area, incharge. Stationed at the Lombartlcentral office, he was connected bytelephone

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