It is always rewarding to collectors, especially to us foreign insulator enthusiasts, to learn of a manufacturer/distributor that we have not known about heretofore. 

Wayne Junop (Palmer Rapids, Ontario) is responsible for the information in this month's column. Wayne is a former insulator collector who now devotes himself to his full time hobby of collecting telephones from many parts of the world. Naturally, through his efforts, he has developed quite a few connections and has always been good to send me material on foreign insulators whenever he has come across anything of interest. 

He recently mailed me two catalogs from the Hoyang Electrical Industry Co., Ltd., which is based in Taipei, Taiwan, and manufactures porcelain insulators. Quoting from his letter of March 15, 1984: 

"The Hoyang firm does manufacture most of the items and their logo is on a few. However, they do handle the products of other firms as well and this is a common way of business over in Taiwan these days. So far I have not actually seen any of their insulators and few firms over there will send you samples, as I have asked more than one already. The only sample I ever got was the one I sent to you in the past." (It was a cute little white porcelain insulator made by Tienta, a company with plants in Taiwan and China, dated 1981. Nothing else is known about this company.)

In looking over the catalogs Wayne sent, I see that besides porcelain pintype insulators for high and low voltage, Hoyang manufactures and/or distributes spools, shackles, strain insulators, suspension discs, transformers, switchgear, hardware for overhead lines, lightning arresters, cables, wire, electrical testing equipment, circuit breakers, motor starters, flood lights, light bulbs, etc., etc. With all that, it has got to be a fair sized company!

A select few of the many pintype insulators manufactured by Hoyang are shown below. These drawings may or may not reproduce very well, since I had to make a Xerox of a Xeroxed copy of their catalog! Notice how closely their telephone insulators resemble styles made in England. The company's logo is shown above.

LOW AND MEDIUM-VOLTAGE PIN TYPE INSULATORS