Monday’s ad is yet another from Budweiser’s “Where There’s Life ..” series. This one shows a man who’s trying to fix what to my eyes appears to be an old rotary telephone … with a hammer. I’m not sure that’s the right tool for the job. But based on the look on his face, I’m not sure he has his mind on what he’s doing anyway.
He fixes things the same way I do. If it doesn’t work take a hammer to it. Sometimes it works but most of the time it doesn’t but at least I feel better especially if I have a beer!
Cheers………………….JD
That’s NOT a rotary telephone – phones opened only from the bottom, & were longer top-bottom than wide. Further, the bottom fit inside the casing. What’s pictured in the ad looks to me to be a housing from a car water pump – I’ve worked on cars, & the diagonally-opposed mounting holes are typical of water pumps. The other object in view reminds me of the inside of a pre-80’s car distributor w/rotor removed. Besides – nobody worked on phones then (phone we had in Fresno 1951-62 was metal-encased & hard-wired). But a lot of folks messed around with cars in 1952, as simple tools were enough to get one through most stuff.
Rotary telephones had the dial on the outside – there were no “holes” inside. The distance from the hole to the stop point (below the 1) defined the electric pulses sent to the switching center. Go to Wikipedia/elsewhere for the rest of the mechanics.
Thanks for setting me straight. I knew someone handier or more mechanically inclined then myself would have a better idea of what it was.