Strowger Traditional Cache
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Wherr a magnetic could be but not magnetic and down low. THis is now a popup film studio and work is still being done here. Parking right by GZ just off the main road. although there are lines on the layby, (Cut in), right by the cache parking cars often park her for longer than would be needed to find this and you will not need to walk away from your car Congratulations to Marilyn of St Helens on FTF
In 1889 Almon B. Strowger invented the first 'real' automatic exchange. Strowger means several things to people: to the public at large he is remembered as the man who invented the automatic telephone to avoid losing business to a rival; to telephone engineers world-wide his name denotes a type of switching mechanism which even a hundred years after its invention is still used in most countries. And to people who work and have worked at what was known as the Strowger Works in Liverpool, the name has an even more special meaning. We have many reasons to be grateful to Mr Almon Brown Strowger of Kansas City, USA. Strowger gave his name not only to a telephone switching system but also to a group of companies, the most famous of which for most of its existence has been based in Chicago and was known as Automatic Electric (now GTE Automatic Electric, a major subsidiary of General Telephone and Electric). Automatic Electric established a number of subsidiaries and licensees which used the Strowger name, but none was more successful than the British concern, known over the years as the Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company (ATM), Automatic Telephone and Electric (ATE), Plessey Telecommunications Ltd. (PTL) and now GEC-Plessey Telecommunications Ltd. (GPT). With headquarters at the Strowger Works, Edge Lane, Liverpool, these companies have made primarily telephone, telegraph and other telecommunications apparatus, and over the years they have also manufactured domestic electrical appliances, essential war products, traffic lights and many other appliances for home and world-wide use. The successive owners of the Liverpool site, culminating in GEC-Plessey Telecommunications have had close associations with the Strowger organisation since early times and have played a significant part in world telephone development through the productions of the Strowger Works in Liverpool. This site which started with and for most of its life produced and improved the original Strowger system, which is still used in the majority of countries in the world , later moved on to created the TXE4, digital and analogue hybrid switching system which was very quickly replaced by the completely digital System X which is still the backbone of the telephone network today At one time there were over 13,000 people working on this site, now the only remaining vestige of this is the round nosed building affectionately called the bullnose and which was the home of the personnel and administration department. Within the next few months from May 2012 the last ties with Strowger will be cut when the last few people working for GPT leave the bullnose building
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