Power of Speech. A history of Standard Telephones & Cables, 1883-1983
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- Author(s) Young, Peter
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1983
- Pages 221pp; illus
- Publisher Allen & Unwin
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Detailed company history written by a former employee and latterly freelance writer focusing on history of telecommunications. Analysis of accounts, 1883-1981, as an appendix. Chapters include: 'The Bell epoch'; 'Advance, Mr Kingsbury, 1883-1898'; 'Making and breaking, 1898-1914'; 'The business of war, 1914-18'; 'Merchants have no country, 1918-25'; 'Going international - gone, 1918-25'; 'Under new ownership, 1925-30'; 'Slump, intervention and 'recovery', 1930-39'; ''A company of gentlemen' - the 1930s'; 'Evacuation and growth, 1939-45'; 'Latter days of the gentlemen, 1945-59'; 'Weary, stale and not so profitable - the later 1950s'; 'The old order changes, 1959-70'; 'A quiet electronic shift, 1970-79'; 'Telling it like it is - the 1970s'; 'Into the digital decade, 1979-83'; 'Prologue to the next century'. Much about the Post Office as customers and as operators of the telecommunication system