Weronika wrote:
As were the - I don't even know the English for it... Those things where one person sat at a board of many holes, plugging in many telephone sticks into the holes?. >
The person doing it is a telephonist or switchboard operator. I last saw that type of switchboard in the early/mid 1960s. Called a "doll's-eye board", because the internal numbers wanting to be connected to an outside phone line dropped down and went up rather like the eyes in a doll.
A small box with switches was in common use for private switchboards inside companies by the end of the 60s.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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