. Bell telephone magazine . in the hurried, wor-ried year of 1945—two-thirds a waryear, one-third a peace year—West-ern planned to deliver to the BellSystem over a million telephone in 1946 the delivery program exchange cable for the Bell System—divided it about 50—50. Haw-thornes cable-making plant waswiped out entirely to make room forwar work. Now, however, they areagain producing cable in large quan-tities, and in 1946 expect once moreto be supplying their half of the Bell 1945 Western Electric Tackles the Peace-tifne Emergency 165 Systems needs, but In the enlargedquantities requ
. Bell telephone magazine . in the hurried, wor-ried year of 1945—two-thirds a waryear, one-third a peace year—West-ern planned to deliver to the BellSystem over a million telephone in 1946 the delivery program exchange cable for the Bell System—divided it about 50—50. Haw-thornes cable-making plant waswiped out entirely to make room forwar work. Now, however, they areagain producing cable in large quan-tities, and in 1946 expect once moreto be supplying their half of the Bell 1945 Western Electric Tackles the Peace-tifne Emergency 165 Systems needs, but In the enlargedquantities required. Take dial central office Bell System needs great quan-tities because about sixty percent ofthe applications for service held bythe telephone companies are held due years Immediately thereafter Haw-thorne expects to make dial equip-ment for a million and a half lines. That is the high level programyou hear about In all parts of theHawthorne Works. You hear Itfrom the office up in the tower of the. Switches in increasing numbers are moving through the soldering and testing lines of the step-by-step shops to lack of central office equipmentand outside plant. Western has accepted the commit-ment to produce dial apparatus fornearly a quarter million lines In 1946 this will be quadrupled—ap-paratus for more than a millionlines! In 1947 and in each of the six-floor Telephone Apparatus build-ing where Mr. Levlnger works allthe wav to the boys in the rod andwire mill. If youve got manpower shapedinto a smooth organization, enoughmachines and tools, and an adequatesupply of materials, you can launch 166 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN yourself on a program of doublingor tripling your production—pro-vided you also have enough space. Doubled Production Calls forMore Space At Hawthorne they didnt haveenough space, not by 800,000 squarefeet; but the receding tides of waroffered the solution. It was theStudebaker Plant down Cicero Ave-nue several miles f
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