Electric vehicles in Bell system

Abstract

The Bell System consists of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company with its subsidiaries Western Electric Company, the supply and manufacturing arm of the Bell System; the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research and development group; and the Operating Telephone Companies that supply local telephone service. Another part of ATbT is the Long Lines Department that operates the long haul long distance service. Bell Telephone Laboratories is owned jointly by ATbT and Western Electric.