About this Vintage Print Ad
This advertisement highlights Western Electric's role in manufacturing telephone equipment and its involvement in confidential defense projects such as radar systems and guided missile control systems. It emphasizes the company's long-standing expertise as part of the Bell Telephone System and its commitment to producing reliable telephone equipment at the lowest possible cost.
- Brand: Western Electric
- Product: Western Electric Telephone Equipment
- Tagline: TELEPHONES... and things we can't talk about
- Publication: Life Magazine
- Year: 1954
Objects in the advertisement: factory building, security guard, street lamps, sign
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