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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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g economies byreducing the non-productive time ofmen and trucks in traveling back andforth from the garage to the job. Under the direct distribution plan, each garage is equipped with a smallsteel locker which contains a few ofcertain types of station items whichare needed occasionally but not re-quired every day; for example, coincollectors, long cords, loud bells, etc.These items serve all the station forceworking from the garage, thus elimi-nating the need for each man to carrya stock of them constantly on histruck. The supply deliverymen re-view the stocks in the lockers nightly,replacing any items which have beenused during the day. Where re-quired, occasionally used tools such asmanhole pumps, portable generators,blowers, long extension ladders, etc.,are neatly stored on racks in a smallenclosed space equivalent to that oc-cupied by one truck. Small stocks oftelephone directories for use of theinstallation force may also be kept inthis space. 284 Bell Telephone Quarterly OCTOBER
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Loading the Truck Placing the portable shelving units in a supply delivery truck transforms it into a traveling storeroom In the downtown business districtsof most cities, it is neither practicalnor economical to equip station in-stallers and repairmen with motortrucks. Here the problem of supplydistribution is of a different naturefrom that discussed so far. Various methods have been used.For example, each installation and re-pair foreman would rent a small roomfor supply storage purposes, locatingit as near as he could judge to thecenter of his local territory. Woodshelving was erected and the foremanordered the supplies he needed forhis force about once a week. Thismethod had some drawbacks. Thelack of factual data in deciding uponthe location of these supply rooms inthe downtown section of the city often necessitated walking long distances tothe job assignments. The task ofordering, stocking, and returning sup-plies took considerable of the fore-mans time, and the different arrang

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