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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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This ingenious little contrivance paints drop wires while they are in the air, so that they need not be lowered to the ground for use in an emergency. Thanks tothat foresight of some years ago,these earlier sets are now being re-conditioned and placed back in serv-ice, and stocks of them are beingtransferred from one Associated 190 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER Company to another to equalize theavailable supply. Working stocks of telephone setshave also been reduced in order toplace every possible telephone in use.Normally each installer had a fewspare sets in his installation truck orin his locker to meet such contingen-cies as breakage, changes in orders, tions where left-in equipment wouldotherwise be available. Less new material is being used torepair telephones than was formerlythe practice. The flexible cords onyour telephone once were replacedwhen they became frayed, but nowthey are not replaced until they be-come electrically inoperative; cords
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Salvaged drop wire not in serviceable condition is returned to a Western Electricrepair shop, where it is carefully inspected and spliced into convenient lengths or special orders. Now he carriesonly enough sets to meet actual serv-ice-order needs. Moreover, the num-ber of sets left in place in vacantpremises where there seems to besome likelihood of reconnection be-fore long has been decreased. Thissometimes makes it necessary, how-ever, to re-install telephones at loca- which are merely frayed are wrappedwith tape. Parts within the set arealso being allowed to wear longerbefore being replaced. Some customers need telephones inout-door locations, and a special sethas been provided for this purpose.The set as manufactured In the pastwas specially designed to withstand 1943 Getting Along With What We Have 191 the weather, and required the use ofmany special parts. Recently, how-ever, it has been modified so that itmay be assembled from parts whichare commonly used for other pur-poses.

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