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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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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right, will go back to the smelter for copper salvage 192 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN proper angle. Each time it wassharpened, a little of the metal wasremoved—so now the drill is fourinches shorter than it originally was.But its still in good condition after11 years of use and John proudlystates that he will still be using thisbit when he retires this fall. He isone of many telephone men who knowthat if you take care of tools prop-erly they will give long service. A SUPPLY MAN in Baltimore is study-ing the inventory and usage of sup-plies, to determine the least amountof supplies to be carried on trucksand in the storerooms and still haveenough on hand when needed. The 44,000 maintenance and con-struction trucks in the Bell System areequipped with the supplies that areneeded every day by the maintenanceand construction men. Installationtrucks have telephone sets, wire, andall of the numerous pieces of mate-terial needed for installation of tele-phones. Construction trucks carry
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cable sleeves, solder, hardware, etc.,for building telephone plant. Eachtruck has to have enough on hand tomeet the requirements. But a littletoo much on each truck would addup to a large quantity when multi-plied by all of the trucks in the BellSystem—so the supply man is con-stantly reviewing the requirements tokeep these stocks at a minimum. He knows that many of the tele-phone supplies are made of criticalmaterials which are needed for de-fense and that any reduction he canmake in the stocks on hand will bereflected in reduced demands on thefactories for new materials. The cross-arm on the pole line inColorado has been in service manyyears. While it is still strong andable to carry its load of wires, it hasstarted to split from the effects of rainand sun, and the end insulator pinsare loose and starting to come out.In past years this meant replacing thecross-arm with a new one—but thensomeone thought ofpulling the split to-gether and fastening itwith a steel band. So,the secti

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