Letters to the Editor

Reprinted from "INSULATORS - Crown Jewels of the Wire", December 1982, page 18

Dear Dora,

I am a fan of the Hartford Electric Lighting Company's pole. Since I like drawing and you want pictures for the magazine, I drew you two sketches of H.E.LT. Co. poles in Thomaston, Connecticut (Perhaps you've heard of Seth Thomas clocks.). The typical prototype of this company is twelve foot crossarms on older poles, and a high ten foot crossarm with a "dropped" polepin in the center. The unusual secondary spool I've seen used on primary by CL&P here in Naugatuck. The wide-skirted porcelain primaries are standard also.

I have a fifteen foot prototype pole in my backyard plus genuine H.E.LT.Co plates on it.
Sincerely yours, 
Steven Jones 
Naugatuck, Connecticut