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G. H. Wieneke
in Memoriam
After a brief period of severe illness
G. H. Wieneke died on August 30 at
an age of 68 years. After graduating
as an engineer he was taken on by
the municipal telephone administration
in Rotterdam on February 1.
1921, where the automatization of
telephone operations was then planned.
With his great technical ability he had
an active part in the realization of
these plans and the choice fell on
L M Ericsson's then recently developed
500-switch ssytem. He thereafter
devoted his entire interest and
efforts to the complicated problems
of telephone operation.
When, in 1961, he celebrated his
fortieth anniversary in the service of
telephony, he was greeted with many
expressions of appreciation of his
work and he could look back on a
successful accomplishment. He rapidly
advanced within the local telephone
administration and had the pleasure
of seeing a rapid subscriber growth,
but he also lived through the 1940
catastrophe when Rotterdam was
bombed and the largest telephone terminal
completely destroyed by fire.
With unwearying energy he organized
the rebuilding and succeeded in a
remarkably short time in getting the
service operating again on a limited
scale.
With the exception of two short
periods during the wars and during
reconstruction of the war-damaged
Dutch telephone network, his work
was in Rotterdam where he was head
of the government-operated telephone
network until his retirement on pension
in 1962.
A keenly interested and prominent
technician, he followed from the start
and, with his colleagues, contributed
to the development of L M Ericsson's
500-switch system and. after the war,
to the introduction of the new crossbar
systems in Holland. L M Ericsson
sets a high value on this fruitful technical
co-operation.
In the course of the years many
L M Ericsson engineers have had the
advantage of working in Rotterdam
and, thanks very much to his efforts,
have gained an insight into the practical
problems of telephone operation
which have been of inestimable value
to us in our work. We shall remember
G. H. Wieneke as the farsighted
friend and technician who was always
ready to discuss and analyse problems
large and small. Requiescat in
pace!
G. H. Ericsson
Opening of New
Exchanges in Lebanon
On July 15 a new crossbar exchange
was opened at Bhamdoun about 12
miles from Beirut in the presence of,
among others, the PTT Minister, M.
Sehnaoui, and the Governor of Mont
Liban, M. Fawzi Bardawil.
The new exchange building at Reyfoun
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The new exchange has an initial
capacity of 2000 ARF lines and
handles fully automatic traffic, via
the Aley exchange, to Beirut, Tripoli
and Jounieh.
The work on the automatization of
the remainder of the national network
is proceeding according to plan.
Altogether five rural exchanges are
now in operation, the last of which,
at Reyfoun. was inaugurated by the
PTT Minister. M. Sehnaoui, in the
presence of, among others. Bishop
Sfeir, of Reyfoun.
During the year orders have been
received for extensions of some 20
larger and smaller Ericsson exchanges.
The Minister of the Lebanese PTT, M. Antoine Sehnaoui, cuts the symbolic tape at the opening
of the Bhamdoun exchange. Beside the Minister (right) is Emir Magid Arslan and (left) Director
General Antoine Chemali and, behind the latter, M. Fawzi Bardawill.
From the year's International Aviation and Space Exhibition in Paris the radar equipment deu-1-
oped within the Military Electronics Division of L M Ericsson for the VIGGEN aircraft (right),
was shown for the first time. Beside it will be seen the DRAKEN radar and, partly concealed,
an equipment for digital transmission of radar pictures on ordinary telephone circuits; at the far
left is a radar test equipment.
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