Chuck Lequereux
Hard at work tuning up a radio on the bench
in the Mobile Radio Shop at 5215 Keith Ave.
This is the same work bench we had
at Doc’s Cartage and then moved to the new barn.
I believe Murray Worobey made the test panel,
with the meters etc visible in front of Chuck.
This picture was taken in the old Radio room
in the new Plant Center on Keith
The Company Rented Various Mobiles
Over the Years.
Some of The Models Were:
GEF133N,
GE Base unit (in Greenville and other sites)
Motorola Business Dispatcher (4 & 8 ch)
H23DCN (Handi-talkie)
VTR 71E & F
VTR 74
VTR 10-12
TAD
Autotel
and others I forget!
Kalum Cab Story
One Mobile story that comes
to mind was a trouble report came in for the Kalum Cab, unit 3, (owned
by Mrs. Henderson at the time), and the report from the dispatcher, was
it sounded like the driver was in a barrel. We tried everything,
changed the set, the mike etc etc but every so often the same trouble would
come in. It wasn’t each and every day though! So one day she
phoned up and was really hopping mad, and demanded we fix the darn thing,
or she would have them all removed. So I told her to send the car
in, when it was having the problem, I wanted to try it myself.
So one day this yellow
cab pulls up behind the Kalum St. shop, and here was the driver and the
car that was having the trouble, and it was doing it right now. So
I climbed in the passenger seat and told the driver to call in so I could
see what the heck it was doing. I couldn’t believe my eyes when he
reached over to the mike on the dash, about 2 feet from him and without
picking up the mike, clicked the transmit button and said “Car 3 how do
I sound” and the dispatcher said, "sounds like you're in a barrel".
I then grabbed the mike off the dash and said the same thing, loud and
clear came the answer. The driver's eyes lit up, when the mike came
off the dash, and all he said was “ I didn’t know that thing came off there!”
Sounds like the old chain saw joke, what’s that noise?, but this really
did happen!
I didn’t have the heart to tell Mrs Henderson what happened,
it just miraculously started to work after that.
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