| | Porcelain Insulator News
| | | by Jack H. Tod, NIA #13
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Photo at the right is of a Locke U-418 and copper fog
shroud (via Robert Chiantelli of Monterey, Calif.). Photo below shows a number
of different fog bowls, all from the California coastal areas, and all in the
collection of Richard A. Peterson of Sacramento.
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| | | Me And The 143 (#6)
| | | by Grant Salzman, NIA #1785
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One of the mold styles
that collectors are most familiar with is the so-called "raised
block" variety, which is a raised slug plate embossed "Canadian
Pacific Ry". I have numbered this item as mold style #3, although it had
its beginning under another name. If you compare the wire groove height and the
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| | | Foreign Insulators
| | | by Marilyn Albers
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Alice Springs and the Overland Telegraph Line
In last month's
article I touched briefly on the Overland Telegraph Line in Australia, and the
fact that Robert Chiantelli (Monterey California) had found some of the old
porcelain insulators from that line while visiting in Alice Springs. Since then
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