Category: Ma Bell

  • My Aunty Bell

    My Aunty Bell

    As I said before,  my dad worked for Western Electric at Montgomery Works. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T until the divestiture in 1984.  His location manufactured telephone parts and data transmission equipment.  He tested equipment during his tenure there.   I remember visiting him at the plant once during a strike.  I…

  • Sturdy construction and great conversational sound quality

    Sturdy construction and great conversational sound quality

    As I mentioned in my prior post, my dad worked at Western Electric in Montgomery Works back in the day. Before the great divestiture of Ma Bell, Western Electric was a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T.  It was a long-lived electrical engineering and manufacturing company founded in 1869.  While Montgomery Works evolved to focus on data…