In the Service of the Community - advert issued by Automatic Telephone & Electric Co Ltd, London & Liverpool, c1947
Ah, the businessman (man of course) sits looking out of his London office window (although the inference is any 'modern' town or city) surrounded by the products of the ATE concern whose main works where in Liverpool in the Strowger Works, that name being a giveaway as to one of their main products.
The company's roots were in telephony when in 1911 when the local cable manufacturers British Insulated acquired the UK rights to manufacturing the new 'automated' telephone exchange technology developed by Stowger from the US Automatic Electric Company. They did well with numerous orders fromt he British GPO as the use of telephones grew and they diversified into allied technologies, the name changing to ATE in 1936.
Some of those other products are shown here - "Rhythmatic" control equipment for things such as street lighting and, possibly the ones they were best known for, traffic signals.
The artwork isn't top-notch but it is very period! And yes, those 'harp' street lamps look very much like the ones that used to sit in Tottenham Court Road!
In the Service of the Community - advert issued by Automatic Telephone & Electric Co Ltd, London & Liverpool, c1947
Ah, the businessman (man of course) sits looking out of his London office window (although the inference is any 'modern' town or city) surrounded by the products of the ATE concern whose main works where in Liverpool in the Strowger Works, that name being a giveaway as to one of their main products.
The company's roots were in telephony when in 1911 when the local cable manufacturers British Insulated acquired the UK rights to manufacturing the new 'automated' telephone exchange technology developed by Stowger from the US Automatic Electric Company. They did well with numerous orders fromt he British GPO as the use of telephones grew and they diversified into allied technologies, the name changing to ATE in 1936.
Some of those other products are shown here - "Rhythmatic" control equipment for things such as street lighting and, possibly the ones they were best known for, traffic signals.
The artwork isn't top-notch but it is very period! And yes, those 'harp' street lamps look very much like the ones that used to sit in Tottenham Court Road!