Identifier: belltelephonemag26amerrich (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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smallitems, and will be filled from stock.The warehouseman at the head ofthe conveyor scans the order, esti-mates its bulk, and sets the requirednumber and sizes of shipping con-tainers—together with the order—on the conveyor, where it joins acontinuous parade of other orders,each with enough headway to bewell clear by the time the next orderreaches the stock selectors. As far as possible, items are ar-ranged in racks beside the conveyorin the same sequence in which theirdescriptions are listed on the standardorder forms. Thus, as our orderreaches the first stock selector, he se-lects the first items required from theracks and sets them in the containersas they move slowly past his position.So does each succeeding stock selec-tor, until the order is complete. Fi-nally, at the end of the line, a tele-phone company employee checks thecontents of the container against theorder. Then, sealed and addressed,the order is set for shipment. 1947 Distribution by Western Electric Company 115
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This view from the rear shows not only a Western Electric distributing house but, at therighty part of its cable dock and, in the foreground, the telephone companys garage Shop Talk* Add shop to office and ware-house, and the picture of the West-ern Electric distributing house is com-plete. In the repair shop, apparatuswithdrawn from service and returned innards for usable components—relays or resistances, for instance.Such mining is a measure not onlyof economy but also of relief duringtimes of stringent shortages. In the repair shop youll find a small-scale telephone assembly lineby the ^telephone^ com^pany is recon- ^^^^ ^j^j^h veteran sets emerge ready —both in appearance and perform- ditioned and readied for a new termof service. Repaired material, re-turned to the warehouses, is ticketedprominently with green labels to indi-cate that it is telephone companyproperty—Class C material, in dis-tributing house parlance. Repair operations in the distribut ance—to take their pl

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