. Bell telephone magazine . lfield engineers to meet the increasingdemands of the Army and Navy. himself been a field engineer, a groupof ten former field engineers spenttheir time hunting out prospects inevery section of the United States forthe expansion of the Force. Theyfound their recruits in 39 states, andeven a handful from Canada and theBritish West Indies. The roster saw virtually every 1946 Western Electric Experts with the Armed Forces 67 major American technical school, col-lege and university represented in themembership. Naturally, electricalengineering degrees predominated al-th
. Bell telephone magazine . lfield engineers to meet the increasingdemands of the Army and Navy. himself been a field engineer, a groupof ten former field engineers spenttheir time hunting out prospects inevery section of the United States forthe expansion of the Force. Theyfound their recruits in 39 states, andeven a handful from Canada and theBritish West Indies. The roster saw virtually every 1946 Western Electric Experts with the Armed Forces 67 major American technical school, col-lege and university represented in themembership. Naturally, electricalengineering degrees predominated al-though several other scientific degreeswere to be found, including a numberof A MAJOR contribution to the de- its theaters, provided a useful back-ground. Several top supervisorypositions were occupied by formerERPI men, all of whom had joinedthe Field Engineering Force in itsearly days. Still another pertinentand valuable asset was the experience,gained over many years, of the fieldengineering group maintained by Bell. An F. E. F. instructor (left center) at the Whippany training school lectures on thefeatures of the train and hoist mechanism to his class of sonar specialists velopment and management of theForce arose out of the experience ofElectrical Research Products, Incor-porated, in the sound motion pictureequipment business, commencing in1927. ERPFs extensive operatingexperience in the installation and serv-icing of sound equipment, in both thenations picture-making studios and Telephone Laboratories for the as-sistance of the broadcasting industryin the installation and use of WesternElectric radio transmitters. Every Western field engineer hasin his possession a certificate whichtestifies that he has received somefour to eight or more weeks of in-tensified training in the theory 68 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING Western Electrics field engi-neers were selected through na-tionwide recruiting from morethan 200 vocations. To employ606 engineers, 4,515 men wer
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