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2000.5.1

ID Number: 2000.5.1
Category: T&E For Communication
Sub-category: telecommunication T&E
Item Name: switchboard
Maker: Acoustic Dictograph Company of Canada Ltd.
Materials: wood; plastic; metal, brass
Measurements: overall: 11.6 cm x 42.29999 cm x 20.6 cm
Description: wooden box with black plastic phone receiver attached; phone cord attaches to receiver and bottom left side of box; left and right sides of boxes front have grooves that would have acted as speakers; 6 black toggle switches on face of box; switches are marked in gold letters (top row); "Batters/Clark/Dewar/Greig/Lancaster/Rowe" (bottom row) "Battes/Campbell/Cochraine/Falconer/Kew/Miliken" Top of box has a brass plate fastened by 2 brass screws. Inscribed on it is "E.E. Varah/A MEMENTO FROM THE EARLY DAYS/FOR A VALUED ASSOCIATE" back of box has hole.
History: Early Ford Motor Company telephone equipment given to donor's father, E.E. Varah, upon his retirement from Fords -Oct 1st 1971. Varah was communications manager at Fords in 1940's.
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

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Ford Motor Company subject

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