TELEPHONE No. 143


Telephone used on the switch floor of telephone exchanges.

The wall board has fitted to it:- 2 docket holders, a hooter, a telephone, 2 notice frames and a box with a hinged lid fitted at the bottom of the board.
Faults were allocated to certain areas within the floor of the exchange and these were on paper slips called dockets. These dockets would be stored in the holders and acted upon. The lidded box held information on cards about the equipment that that section patrolled.
The notice frames generally held any information that the engineer felt should be held there.


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