Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14733580186)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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The housing of the outdoor telephoneset is now made of wood instead of metal tie material as compared with whatwould normally be required to takecare of the great increase in tele-phones and long distance calls. Telephones Your telephone set is a good ex-ample with which to start. In the latter part of 1941, the newcombined telephone sets were beingmanufactured at a rate in excess of2,000,000 a year. That rate rapidlydiminished during 1942, and manu- facture ceased last Fall. But thenumber of subscribers has continuedto increase at the rate of more thana million a year. How has it beenpossible to serve them without mak-ing as many new telephones as usual?The principal answer is found in thefact that about 750,000 of the earliertypes of telephones, including manyof the upright desk-stand type, whichwere displaced by more modern sets,were not thrown out but were setaside so that they would be available
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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