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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (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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p ofStaten Island, the storage bins andrailroad sidings at Nassau are bulg-ing with bales of wire, reels of cable,boxes of assorted metal parts, allgarnered from the four corners ofthe Bell System. These scrap prod-ucts are purchased by Nassau fromWestern Electric and the telephonecompanies at prices depending on themetal content and the market valueof refined metal. To balance out thecompanys operations, Nassau alsopurchases scrap materials, such asshell casings, and machine scrap ofnumerous varieties from other indus-tries. During a normal year, Nassaubuys about half of its secondary rawmaterials from the Bell System andhalf on the outside. Likewise, halfof the metals refined by Nassau re-turn to the Bell System for re-use inthe manufacture of telephone equip-ment, while the remaining portion issold to other industries in the formof bronzes, zinc dust, and other prod-ucts which have limited use in tele-phone production. 1946-47 Nassau—The Bell System s Co)iservation Specialist 259
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A load of scrap telepho>ie cable is weighed at a Western Electric Distributing Housebefore shipment to Nassau Smelting & Refining for processing into some new form of raw materials Classifying^ Sortings Refining One of the secrets In reclaiming forthe Bell System Is careful sorting andclassification. Scrap gets a prelimi-nary going over at the variousWestern Electric factories and dis-tributing houses. In some cases,scrap material accumulated at tele-phone companies Is shipped directlyto Nassau under the supervision ofthe local Nassau representative. AtWesterns Works locations, Nassaurepresentatives assist in setting up ef-ficient methods and routines to guar- The same procedure applies to re-tired telephone equipment dismantledat the various distributing houses.From long experience and analysisof manufacturing operations, Nassaumen can estimate the quality andquantity of scrap expected from thatsource. Most telephone plant scrapconsists of recurring Items, too, likeswitchboard

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