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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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o accessory shops,and mail order branch stores. Localsupply people, working closely withWestern Electric buyers, have madelocal purchases of thousands of suchitems as pliers, screwdrivers, ham-mers, bits, braces, star drills, axes,and hand saws. Installers tool bags have been onthe shortage list. Since leather isscarce, heavv canvas bags are beingsubstituted. One company found itcould get plenty of canvas bags madeup by an aw^ning manufacturer whilehis business was suffering its usualmid-winter slump. Make-do dial test sets are beingproduced by Western Electric distrib-uting houses. These are being as-sembled out of old handset handles,,dials, and other standard parts pro-duced for other uses. One houseturned out five hundred for use untilthe standard rubber encased type isavailable. And that isnt all. Here and therethroughout the System the companieshave been: Tapnui liorn or jraycd Iclrphonccords, so iJiat most of the production 1945-46 The Bell Svs/iw\s- hirst Onlcr of Business 307
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While the shortage ot telephone instruments was acute, some make-do models were put together which cant be found in any catalog. Left to right, above, are, a dial test set, a wooden box for the subscriber set, and a back-to-back arrangement of a hang-up telephone and a wall bell box of tiiW cords can he used to equip newtelephone sets; Recovering protectors as ivell asinstruments zvhen telephones are dis-connected, to alleviate the shortage inthis item of equipment; Using home-made connector blocksand ground rods to overcome tem-porary shortages; And saving, reconditioning, and re-using everything with any life left init. All Departments Speed the J oh The drive to get service to waitingcustomers in the shortest possible timeaffects most directly, of course, thePlant and Engineering Departmentsand Western Electric. But all de-partments are making important con-tributions to the effectiveness of thejob. The business offices, which havecustody of the held-application files,are also cust

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