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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (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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e Western Electric Companyhas facilities and trained personnelto handle the disbursement and trans-portation of materials such as theseunder emergency conditions, thestocks have been placed under thecustodianship of that organization.As requested by the War ProductionBoard, the stocks will be available toany telephone company, Bell or in-dependent, in the event of need aris-ing from war damage. If an emergency stock is to fulfillits purpose, it is necessary not onlythat the stock should include the ma-terials needed but, of almost equalimportance, it must be known exactlywhere each item is: not only whatyou have but where you have it. De-tailed records have been set up atSystem headquarters, and also placedin the hands of the Western Electric Company and the Associated Com-panies of the System, giving the lo-cation and exact make-up of eachitem of manual and dial central officeequipment, each unit of power plant,each reel of cable, each essential pieceincluded in the emergency stocks.
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Clearly marked on the inner surface ofthe reel, each section of cable can bequickly identified as to length, make-up,and condition Particular attention has been givento so packaging and storing the ma-terials that those which would be re-quired first can be started on theirway to a scene of damage as soon asword is received as to what to sendand where to send it. i81 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER In the map on page 179 are indi-cated the locations of war emergencystocks of cable and equipment. Thereasons for the concentrations alongthe coastal fringes and in the busi-est war industry areas of the GreatLakes region—as well as for indefi-niteness of the locations on the map—are probably self-evident. Emergency Cable Stocks A TOTAL of about 305,000 sheath feet—nearly 60 miles—of non-quaddedexchange cable, ranging in size from300-pair 19-gauge to 1800-pair 26-gauge, is on hand. The distributionof the emergency stock among thedifferent sizes and gauges of cablefollows the broad

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