Letters to the Editor

Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", November 1984, page 32

Dear Dora,

Every now and then something really interesting shows up. Sometimes it's an insulator, or some other piece of Hemingray glass, or a piece of paper. This time it is a price schedule for jobbers dated 1905. Even though it didn't include drawings, one can obtain a pretty good idea of the commercially available Hemingray insulators at that time. The only puzzle -- to me -- is what No. 10 and No. 15 Span Wire Insulators were. Maybe someone has a supply house catalog of that era that would show what they looked like.

I am sending you a copy (see following page). The "original" was reproduced on letterhead stationery by a process like the old ditto press. Parts of it are faded, and I just can't pull it out with our Kodak copier.
Sincerely,
Glenn Drummond

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