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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
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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Removing a cardjrom the trouble recorder: a more moderyiway of locating trouble than by laborious hand testing 210 Bell Telephojie Magazuie WINTER routines to care for such conditionswere also reestablisiied. Results of the study indicated that,although some routines had not beenperformed often enough, many hadbeen performed too often to paytheir way. Furthermore, there wasstrong evidence that even in two of-fices of the same type, the same rou-tines and routine frequencies werenot required. That is, the applica-tion and use of preventive mainte-nance routines must be tailored bythe Plant folks concerned to fit theneeds of their own office. Aids fordetermining the requirements forpreventive maintenance measures inany office were devised, and Plantpeople are now operating their of-fices on a qualitative preventivemaintenance basis. The application of the results ofthis study to central office mainte-
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Pushing the button automatically performsa line insulation test nance programs across the countryhas improved customers service.Furthermore, the qualitative ap-proach has provided appreciable sav-ing of effort in day-to-day preventivemaintenance work. The changesfrom older methods of operationwere accomplished without disloca-tion of central office people, and it isexpected that further savings will ac-crue as qualitative methods are ap-plied in the maintenance of othertypes of telephone plant. An Outside Job Almost everyone is familiar withthe sight of telephone men workingon the cables, poles, and wire whichare collectively called outside plant.This plant accounts for somewhatmore than half of the total invest-ment in telephone property and con-tributes more than a quarter of thecustomer troubles. Periodic inspec-tions are an important part of themaintenance program designed tokeep it in both safe and serviceablecondition. Annually, supervisors inspect theoutside plant to detect tro

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