| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Jack H. Tod, NIA #13
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I was very interested in the reports of the U-418 and
its copper fog shroud in several recent issues of CJ, since I spotted some
similar shrouds on a telephone line running along the coast just south of Santa
Barbara, Cal. several years ago. These shrouds (somewhat smaller than the ones
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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Insulators from Greece
I feel very fortunate to have two whole
live insulators from Greece, at last! I remember seeing one like these on a
sales table at the 1979 National Show in Denver, and assuming it was for sale,
asked, "How much?" The answer came back, "You can't buy just one.
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| | the "California Connection"
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| | by Brent Burger
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TRAMPS. CALIFORNIA made three of these. We know them as the C.D.
190/191 TWO-PIECE, the C.D. 200, and the C.D. 201. Of the five or so CAL's that
are really rare, these three surely fit in. The TWO-PIECE is one of the rarest,
if not THE rarest. There are only about a dozen of these in collectors' hands
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| | "Threadless Corner"
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| | by Ray Klingensmith
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MORE INSULATOR MANUFACTURERS FOUND!
Over the last few months I've
located some material through a little research of my own, and reading through
the works of other authors, on some early glass companies that made telegraph
insulators. At first I planned on saving the news for individual articles after
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| | Phantom Insulators
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| | by William C. Ogden
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Most insulator collectors with a knowledge of pole-line
hardware and other go-withs would be familiar with the phantom and split-phantom
transposition brackets. Many collectors with a knowledge of open-wire line
operation understand the idea of the phantom circuit. This article is on the
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| | Me And The 143 (#9)
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| | by Grant Salzman, NIA #1785
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I am deeply indebted to so
many nice people who have helped me put together the material for these
articles, and I try to mention them all. So before I begin with the section on
C.P.R. 143's, I want to thank someone who has given me invaluable assistance in
the C.P.R. and Canadian Pacific areas, Mr. Mel Allen of Surrey, British
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