CD193

Reprinted from "INSULATORS - Crown Jewels of the Wire", April 1973, page 3

QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY N. R. WOODWARD

Question sent in by John C. Carriger, Del City, Oklahoma: I have acquired some of the CD 193-F-AM. TEL. & TEL. CO., and they were used as a one piece insulator and are much different from the two piece insulator. I would like information on these from someone and also the value if possible. Thank you.

In reply to John C. Carriger: The CD #193 is an early transposition top, even though they are found on the line by themselves. Through the years, as the Bell System companies have rebuilt and modernized their lines, old insulators by the thousands have been given to the small independent telephone companies and private individuals with their own lines in rural areas. On these "farmer lines" anything that was an insulator was quite suitable in those days; and thus a great many transposition tops, along with discarded ponies and tolls, found their way into such service. As to the CD #193, there is no data that I have seen indicating when that particular style was used; but it would surely be one of the earlier, if not the earliest, versions of the Hibbard Transposition.