Bell Telephone Company, St. Thomas - Tour of Exchange
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives116465
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1957
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- C8 Sh6 B4 F9 4
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C8 Sh6 B4 F9 4
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1957
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 20.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Black and white photograph used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published September 5, 1957 with caption: " The completed home of the Bell Telephone Company's automatic exchange on Southwick street was formally handed over to the owners by representatives of Con Eng Contractors Limited today. A tour of the $430,000 building which will eventually contain telephonic equipment valued at a figure in the $2,000,000 bracket preceded the handover event which was attended by the architects and sub-contractors. Pictured above from the left are F.E. Smith, Toronto, Bell Telephone electrical engineer; R.W. Fuller, London, manager of Con-Eng Contractors Ltd.; H. Weare, Rankin Plumbing and Heating St. Thomas; Don Blaney, London, Con-Eng superintedent on the project; W.R. Kinsman, of Alward and Gouinlock, architects, of Toronto; F.C. Ansley, London president of Con-Eng Contractors Limited; A.D. Collins, Toronto, supervisor of building construction for Bell; J. Fred Green, of St. Thomas, supervising architect. Standing on the front steps are, left, J.E.F. Jefferess, of Bell's London office; K.R. Bond, of the Woodstock area of Bell, and on the right L.S. Brown, of Bell; A.Brooks, of Wilson and Somerville, St. Thomas, and George Rankin, president of Rankin Plumbing and Heating, St. Thomas."
- Subject Access
- Newspapers
- Business and Industry
- Telecommunications
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