> On May 9, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Pete Lancashire <p...@petelancashire.com> wrote: > > The relays were from WECO. Made by the millions, they were the ones used in > all Bell telephone exchanged from the early 50's up to the ESS (electronic) > exchanges. Remember seeing ones with less then a full compliment of contacts, > but that was pretty uncommon. > > https://archive.org/details/bstj31-6-1023
Nice, thanks. I recognize the older "U" style relays, my father used a bunch of those in various ham radio projects. The end of that article describes Wire Wrap technology. I wonder if that was the first time it appeared. paul