Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company
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melbourne-telephone-exchange-company-319-17492186
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Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company
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The Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company operated Australia's first telephone exchange. The exchange was located at 367 Collins Street, and commenced operation in August 1880. H. Byron Moore was a founder and its first manager; W. H. Masters and T. T. Draper were the owners of the company. It later became the Victorian Telephone Exchange Company and remained in private ownership until 1887, when it was bought out by the Victorian Colonial Government. In the first year it had 23 subscribers but b
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2021-12-21T21:42:10Z
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