| | Pyrex Insulators
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| | by Alan Rodgers
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Ask any housewife what she thinks of when the name "Pyrex" is
mentioned, and the answer will be ovenware and kitchen utensils. Ask a chemist,
and it will be laboratory glassware. Ask an insulator collector, and the answer
will be beautiful carnival glass insulators.
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| | To Skulk Is Divine (?)
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| | by H. G. "Bea" Hyve
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The following story is an excerpt from a letter written to a fellow
collector. Any incorrect technical information therein is the direct result of a
gross lack of education on the part of the letter writer, who was later set
straight on many matters related to insulators and electricity. Incidentally,
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Jack H. Tod
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Preferably direct porcelain news items and questions directly to Jack H. Tod,
3427 N. 47th Place, Phoenix, Ariz. 85018. All mail will be answered if reply
stamp is enclosed, and the most newsworthy items and questions of general
interest will be published as space permits.
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| | D.C. Trolley Car Feeder Wire Ins.
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The body part of this D.C. Trolley Car Feeder Wire insulator was shown on
page 26 of my book, Unique Collectible Insulators. I had not seen the complete
insulator until I acquired one at the San Diego Show. This insulator supposedly
came from the old trolley lines in San Francisco. They were installed there
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| | More On Canadian Insulators
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| | by Jack Hayes
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In my letter to you in the May 1975 issue of Insulators I provided some
insight into the history of three insulators made in Canada, the CD 742.1, CD
726 and CD 721. My family and I had not been able to find a complete insulator
at the site of the Canada Glass Company, only pieces.
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| | The England Brookfield RD Insulator
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| | by Hank Golet
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In your Sep. 74 issue you carried a letter I had written to you concerning
insulators embossed with an RD and some numbers. I was seeking any information I
could get from anyone who had or has had one in the past. Also anyone else who
knew anything about them, where they came from, etc. The two insulators I was
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