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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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city blocks, on a largescale map, and the centers of heaviestconcentration are picked as the loca-tions for the combined installationand repair supply lockers. These lo-cations are usually in office buildingsor stores. Steel lockers, which can beeasily moved when the center of ac-tivities changes, are placed at eachselected location, and stocked withpredetermined types and quantities ofstation supplies. Both installers andrepairmen use the same lockers, asmuch of the material used by thesetwo force groups is identical. In the downtown section of a typi-cal large city operating under thisplan, there will be about 20 lockerlocations serving about 160 walkinginstallers and repairmen. These mensecure their supplies for each job fromthe nearest locker. In general, no at-tempt is made to assign particularmen continuously to specific locker lo-cations and this permits shifting theforce to handle sectional peaks inbusiness without any supply compli- 19^0 Final Steps in Supply Distribution 285
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A TRAVELING STOREROOM IN OPERATION From the shelves, requisitioned supplies are put in bags and placed on the work trucks inthis typical garage, and items to be returned for reconditioning are picked up from the trucks at the same time cations. It also reduces to a mini-mum the time spent by the employeein securing supplies, since he merelygoes to the nearest locker for theitems he needs. To aid the employeein locating the items, the supplies arearranged identically at every locationand the shelving is labeled to showthe name of each item and the au-thorized quantity. JMiGHTLY the supply deliverymenwith a traveling storeroom motortruck visit each location to replace theitems which were used during the dayand to pick up recovered material.It is not necessary for the stationforces to prepare any orders for thismaterial; the supply organization does the entire job. Under averageconditions, better than 90 per cent ofthe customers orders for service andpractically all of the station mainte

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