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Popular Science Monthly 



Trucks having six shel ves, each shelf capable of carrying seven tele- 

 phone sets, are taken down on the elevator to the loading platform 



off at the end of several trips. 



The trucks have six 

 shelves each; seven sets are 

 carried on each shelf. The 

 truck is taken down on the 

 elevator to the loading plat- 

 form, where it is pushed into 

 a large motor-truck capable 

 of holding eight racks, or 

 336 telephone sets. At the 

 other end of the route, the 

 racks are removed in the 

 reverse manner. 



This method lessens the 

 liability to damage; saves 

 more than half of the former 

 re-handling expense and en- 

 ables the company to con- 

 centrate in one place all the 

 packing activities from a 

 number of buildings thereby 

 reducing packing costs and 

 the time usually required for 

 the work. 



Reducing Packing Costs in Handling 

 Telephone Sets 



THE tremendous cost of 

 dreds of thousands of 

 yearly in the factory has 

 been greatly reduced 

 through the use of small 

 wheeled trucks, each car- 

 rying forty-two complete 

 sets. Once a telephone 

 set has been inspected and 

 passed, it is not handled 

 individually until it is 

 taken from stock in a 

 building several miles 

 away. 



Before the trucks 

 were introduced, sets 

 were handled over and 

 over again. They 

 passed from the testing 

 bench to an ordinary 

 handtruck, from that 

 into a motor truck, 

 from the motor truck 

 to another handtruck 

 at the main storehouse 

 and lastly from that to 

 the stock shelf. Now 

 the sets are handled 

 twice only. They are 

 placed on the trucks 

 at the start and taken 



handling hun- 

 telephone sets 



The wooden arrowhead frame with 

 seventeen lights was substituted for 

 the old top of the lamp post 



Arrowhead Lamp Posts Mark the 

 Arrowhead Trail 



MANY motor routes have been opened 

 up across the continent during the 

 past few years. One of the most popular 

 of these has been designated "The Arrow- 

 head Trail," and the trail for a part of the 

 way, — that portion which passes through 

 San Bernardino, Cali- 

 fornia, — has been 

 "blazed" by lamp posts 

 in arrowhead design. 



The arrowhead lamp 

 posts were made sim- 

 ply by cutting off the 

 top of the ordinary 

 street lamp posts and 

 substituting a wooden 

 arrowhead, on top of 

 which the regular elec- 

 tric lamp was placed. 

 The arrowhead struc- 

 ture contains sixteen 

 incandescent globes of 

 a buff tint, to represent 

 the rocks of the trail. 

 These in conjunction 

 with the large light at 

 the top of the post 

 make the trail brilliant 

 through the streets of 

 the city at night, ad- 

 vertising the route. 



