"From the Old to the New" Shannon Telephone Exchange Installation

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 23 April 1963 "Modern automation came into being at the Sanson telephone exchange at 1 p.m. yesterday. In this picture (from the left) are Mr. D. Glen, chief technician at Palmerston North, and Mr. M.W. Randal, a senior technician from Wanganui, who was in charge of the installation work. "

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2017-20

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

April 23, 1963

Digitisation id

2017N_2017-20_017637

Format

B&W negative

Held in

Other