AUDIO
Interview with Jan Cartmell
- Date
- 27 Apr 2010
- By
- Cartmell, Janet, 1943-
- Reference
- OHInt-1004-01
- Description
Interview with Janet (Jan) Cartmell (nee Hutchinson), born in Warkworth in 1943. Refers to growing up on a dairy farm at Port Albert, attending school in Wellsford, and her first jobs in Wellsford shops.
Discusses working at the Silverdale telephone exchange in 1966, rosters, supervision by the postmaster, procedures in the manual exchange, party lines, and how they calculated the length of toll calls. Refers to handling emergency calls, urgent calls, and directory service at the Auckland exchange. Talks about transferring to Masterton telephone exchange, extra training because it was a 'first division' exchange. Mentions local calls were automated and toll calls were manual. Comments that operators at Masterton handled flood alarms. Refers to working in directory service at Masterton. Talks about promotion, being a stand-in supervisor, and pay rates for weekend work. Comments on working on the 'doggo' [night] shift, and on management and supervision at the exchange. Discusses moving to directory service in Auckland which covered the whole country and working in the international directory service. Recalls that French exchanges would not give listings after the Rainbow Warrior bombing. Refers to her current job with Telecom doing investigative work for difficult billing situations. Comments on the cameraderie among telephone exchange operators and keeping up friendships.
Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching
Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001711, OHA-7518.
Search dates: 1943 - 2010
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires the written permission of the copyright holder; publication on the internet requires the written permission of the interviewee Copyright: Copyright is held by Museum of Transport and Technology - MOTAT
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project
- Format
- 1 digital sound recording(s), 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 interview(s), 1 Hours Duration, Digital audio formats, Electronic documents, Electronic records (Digital records), Oral histories, Sound quality: Background noise of air conditioning, Equipment used: Sound Devices 722 digital recorder; AKG lapel microphones
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Interview with Jan Cartmell, printed abstract
Date: 27 Apr 2010
From: MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project
Reference: OHA-7518
Description: Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Jan Cartmell, digital abstract
Date: 27 Apr 2010
From: MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project
Reference: OHDL-001711
Description: Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 2 Electronic document(s).
Interview with Jan Cartmell, digital sound recording
Date: 27 Apr 2010
From: MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project
Reference: OHDL-001718
Description: Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001711, OHA-7518.