Nameplate on telephone switchboard
I found out that Suttle was founded about 1910, and there is still a company by that name in the telephony manufacturing business today.
Based on a piece I found online I think the switch was built about 1915, just about exactly the time the picture of Ailsie Hansell was taken sitting at a similar switch.
Suttle didn't actually manufacture the switches they sold; their niche was to take old equipment and rebuild it. In this case, the board is mostly a Kellogg 50-line board, with a very few modifications by Suttle.
They are the only old-time telephony equipment manufacturer still in the business today of making that type of equipment.
Nameplate on telephone switchboard
I found out that Suttle was founded about 1910, and there is still a company by that name in the telephony manufacturing business today.
Based on a piece I found online I think the switch was built about 1915, just about exactly the time the picture of Ailsie Hansell was taken sitting at a similar switch.
Suttle didn't actually manufacture the switches they sold; their niche was to take old equipment and rebuild it. In this case, the board is mostly a Kellogg 50-line board, with a very few modifications by Suttle.
They are the only old-time telephony equipment manufacturer still in the business today of making that type of equipment.