Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569786178)

Identifier: bellvol24telephonemag00amerrich (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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panded and will stay right here.But the PBX job is located here onlytemporarily. Its due to go back tothe main plant as soon as war workis sufficiently cleared out there. TheK-carrier job transfers to the Kearnyplant. This just about fixes up the47th Street Building to receive thesheet metal shop—except for theGovernment coil shop. Fortunately 1945 Western Electric Tackles the Peace-time Emergency 167 for Bill Timm, that shop died whenthe war ended. However, theres still an orphanaround. Remember? Switchboardcable used to be made back in Build-ing 17 ^ where the augmented cross-bar job now is located. And switch-board cable is something were goingto need in very considerable quantity.Where will we start up the manufac- place in the space occupied beforethe war by telephone set manufac-ture. The latter, of course, is slatedfor the Studebaker plant. Calculus, says Bill Timm, isrelaxing. Preparations for Production And so you can see the kind of ring-around-a-rosy that goes on in reor-
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MoRE and more miles ofwire are spinning offWestern Electrics ma-chines every day. Thisone simultaneously tins12 bare copper wireswhich become a protec-tive braiding over rub-ber insulated conductors Scenes from all three ofWestern Electrics prin-cipal Works—Kearny,N. J., and Point Breeze,Md., as well as Haw-thorne—are among thephotographs which illus-trate this article ture of that? The answer lies in Building 106.Time was, before the war, when thisvast single-story structure housed themanufacture of telephones along withseveral other things. But war filledup Building 106 with gun directors,computers, and other needed tools ofthe combat forces. However, thewar work there is done now and theswitchboard cable work can take its ganizing a war manufacturing plantsuch as Hawthorne was. Nothing has been said, however,of the details of the job—the ques-tions which must be answered, like: —how many machines? —what type? —how many people? —number and type of benches? —will a gi