The war placed great demands on communications, and Western Electric worked with C&P Telephone Company to install a new
automatic switchboard. The upgrade reduced personnel requirements to "only" 80 operators, seven supervisors, a chief operator, and an assistant chief operator to support extensive wartime communications.
Four tenders for the supply of (a) 16 mm2 copper wire, also 35 & 70 mm2 aluminum wire, (b) low voltage
automatic switchboard, (c) 2,000 Amp.
On first hearing No One Listen is a song for anyone who ever got trapped in the
automatic switchboard of faceless bureaucracy.
Post moved the central office into a larger space, where a 100-line
automatic switchboard was installed.
Dee Valley Water, which supplies 250,000 people, adjusted its
automatic switchboard with a safety message to reassure callers yesterday.
The application gives faculty, staff and administration an
automatic switchboard and answering service during holidays, between terms and after hours.
Supply of a diesel generator and an
automatic switchboard. Ref.
Could this explain why
automatic switchboards put you on hold late morning because of volume of callers?