[FreedomPoster]

Western Electric made stuff that would survive a nuclear war.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Pentagon had so many telephones that Western Electric set up a telephone manufacturing plant directly adjacent to the Pentagon.

[smokingfrog]

I was visiting Ft. Concho in San Angelo, TX a few moths ago, and they had a very interesting telephone museum there. Some of those phones looked like they were made for just that.

https://texastimetravel.com/directory/eh-danner-museum-telephony/