A white cottage was formerly a telephone exchange, reputedly the last manual exchange in England.
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The last Los Angeles manual exchange was THornwall 6, in Burbank, which operated until the late 1950s.
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Ericsson ignored the growth of automatic telephony in the United States and concentrated on manual exchange designs.
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Before a manual exchange was converted to automatic, changes to allocated numbers to facilitate PBX hunting groups were required.
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In 1970 the Post Office was run in conjunction with Telecom as one of the last manual exchanges in Australia.
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It stopped postal service and closed down phone service in those parts of the country still on manual exchanges, including Durrus.
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In Venezuela, it helped create an electronic stock exchange, the Bolsa Electronica, that now operates in tandem with a manual exchange.
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By Bell System policy, customers never needed to be concerned about whether they were calling an automatic or a manual exchange.
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Subscribers on manual exchanges asked for a number in the format, whether the called number was on a manual or automatic exchange.
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A number of subscribers were served via automatic sub-centres based on Post Office relays and Type 2 Uniselectors acting as concentrators for the manual exchange.