. Bell telephone magazine . A FEW weeks ago all of these women were working on military communication equip-ment. Now they are making wire connections on units of central office equipment again to the rumbling machine thatsqueezes the metal into wire-shapedrods. A flock of little merry-go-roundstwist pink, yellow, purple, red andgreen threads into insulating jacketson wires. In a wire cage a Ferris wheel that transmitter units. A hunchback press stands eightfeet tall and goes Ka-whump tobite a bar of steel and make anotherU-shaped magnet for ringer assem-blies. Theres the angry buzz of com-pre
. Bell telephone magazine . A FEW weeks ago all of these women were working on military communication equip-ment. Now they are making wire connections on units of central office equipment again to the rumbling machine thatsqueezes the metal into wire-shapedrods. A flock of little merry-go-roundstwist pink, yellow, purple, red andgreen threads into insulating jacketson wires. In a wire cage a Ferris wheel that transmitter units. A hunchback press stands eightfeet tall and goes Ka-whump tobite a bar of steel and make anotherU-shaped magnet for ringer assem-blies. Theres the angry buzz of com-pressed air screwdrivers sinking brass I 62 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN screws into the vitals of combinedsets. A busy little punch press snapsrivets into piece-parts. Zu-whapplZu-whapp! Zu-whapp! goes thepress, and each stroke shouts Goodnews! Good news! Good news! toevery telephone man and woman inthe Wiring the units of central office switch boards is an intricate operation which calls for training, skill, and care It is good news, tremendously goodnews to the public and to telephonecompanies, this action that is takingplace at Hawthorne. That the action is vast and that itis complicated almost beyond com-prehension is demonstrated by thesights to be seen and the stories tobe heard at the Works. Western Electric, of course, is awhole lot more than Hawthorne, big as the latter is. There are three ma-jor Works—Kearny, New Jersey,which concentrates on switchboards,exchange cable, and carrier systems;Point Breeze, at Baltimore, Mary-land, which emphasizes wire, switch-board cords, and toll cable—particu-larly coaxial cable; and Hawthorne,where the big volume production isin central office dial equipment, tele-phones, and exchange cable. Each of these major units makesmany other vital elements of tele-phone plant, of course, and each hasmany satellite plants. About 70,000people wor
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