
"From the Old to the New" Shannon Telephone Exchange Switching Off
- Description
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 April 1963 "Modern automation came into being at the Sanson telephone exchange at 1 p.m. yesterday as Miss Glenys Murray disconnected the last cord from the old switchboard, and a technician turned a master switch. Seconds later the wires hummed and equipment chattered as Sanson's 190 subscribers experimented with the "new-fangled" invention."
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Identifier
- 2017-20
- Relation
- 2017-20
- Date
- April 23, 1963
- Digitisation ID
- 2017N_2017-20_017636
- Format
- B&W negative
- Held In
- Other