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What a fantastic sight and sound this must have been as brand new D299 proudly displaying headboard as the "100th Type 4 locomotive build by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry Newton-le-Willows" idles away on Wargrave Road on a very wet October 24th 1960.
Friend and former work colleague Eddie Bellass would have had first hand 'gen' about this as his father worked the signal boxes in the area and Eddie maintained the Vulcan Switchboard (PABX) for the then GPO.
* D299 (40099) was withdrawn October 12th 1984 and later scrapped at Doncaster Works.
The We’re Here! Help Desk switchboard is lighting up with reports of Computer Errors.
I started seeing this one on my laptop after the upgrade to Windows 10. It usually appears when I have been doing photo manipulations for a few hours, and the various “fix” suggestions on You Tube and elsewhere never seem to be applicable. One of these days I’m going to have to replace this old computer – but not yet.
About remembering those keys . . . and my glasses, and my ID badge, and my mobile phone, and . . . well, I don’t think there is any upgrade available for that.
Bigger electrical switchboard for utility buildings, custom built. This one was undergoing a final test. They told me, all switchboards are tested before installing them into the building itself to be absolutely sure a problem can be handled in the production facility. Makes sense to me!
one of the control rooms in the abandoned cement works Kaltenleutgeben/Rodaun - Austria
area 17/18: raw meal silos
This image is of the main electrical switchboard in a Royal Navy cruiser that was operational from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. This distributed all the electrical power required by the ship's systems and her 800+ crew.
I assume that this is no longer in use and the ship's lighting and electrical power is provided from somewhere else... Indeed, I wonder if modern health and safety rules would even allow such an installation to be powered-up today?
Taken aboard HMS Belfast (C35) in the Pool of London.
at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
At first, I really didn't like this photo. The motley assembly of nearby exhibits such as the switchboard and the transparent human body just seems too messy. However, the more I look at it, the more it appeals to me. I'm not really sure why.
Some history ...
The Henderson Motorcycle company was founded by brothers Tom and William Henderson and produced bikes from 1912 to 1931. In their day, Hendersons were considered some of the finest motorcycles around, and were the favourite of North American police forces because of their high speed.
In 1917 the Henderson brothers sold the company to Ignaz Schwinn (of Schwinn bicycle fame).
Through the 1920s, Henderson was one of the Big Three in motorcycle manufacturing, along with Harley-Davidson and Indian.
However, The Great Depression that began in 1929 panicked Ignaz Schwinn. In 1931, despite continued strong sales, Schwinn ordered the production of motorcycles to be stopped, pared the company down, and gave his focus solely to bicycles.
The Wentworth Post Office was constructed circa 1895, replacing an earlier timber cottage. A small red brick structure was located at the side housing the town switchboards. This was demolished circa 2000.
Source: New South Wales Heritage Register.
Dolor
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplicaton of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.
~Theodore Roethke
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The Telephone Exchange is headquarters for the turn-of-the-century telephone system used in the village.
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This was deep inside the beast that is Ratcliffe Power Station. The board above the cabinet states 415 Volt Precipitator Switchboard 1-E. I assume that this is something to so with capturing dust from the boilers before it escapes from the chimney.
One of our family members was a switchboard operator at the local regional hospital here in Victoria, B.C., Canada. We are not sure what the occasion was, but here she is posing in front of the switchboard with another operator and someone else.
For those too young to remember:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchboard_operator
This is a Polaroid instant photo of some type, with part of the film strip still attached: I have included a scan of the printing on the back which identifies the make but I don't think the serial number is of any relevance. Based on family memories this photo probably dates from the mid to late 1950's. I've no idea what happened to the colour, if there ever was any.
Uploading re. Flickr's Spring Polaroid Week 2024.
This board is from 1927 and the operators used to be the best informed citizens of the town :)
Spotted at the museum Den Gamle By in Aarhus
ENG: The old telephone workplace of the Berlin subway station at the Olympiastadion.
GER: Der alte Telefon Arbeitsplatz der Berliner U-Bahn Zentrale am Olympiastadion. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_U-Bahn-Museum
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Spaceship Earth, Epcot.
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