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Dear Carol,
Here are a couple of old ads I found in a book called "The Railways of
Canada" (1871). With Montreal Telegraph having 7800 miles of poles in 1870,
there must be a heck of a lot of M.T.CO. insulators buried around the country
somewhere. I have just received my first issue of C.J. and really enjoy it.
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| | Fire Alarm and Police Call Boxes
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| | by Larry Pelland
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FIRE ALARM BOXES
In 1851, the city of Boston voted to award a contract to install a central
alarm office with 45 alarm boxes and the apparatus for striking signals on the
16 city bells. The following year, the new fire alarm telegraph system was
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| | WHITALL TATUM CD 272 A Chronological History
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| | by Richard Wentzel
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The History of CD 272 power transmission insulators as manufactured by
Whitall Tatum and Armstrong Glass Companies begins with a hastily executed memo
sent from Whitall Tatum's New York City-based insulator division manager, Mr.
V.F. Hammel, to George Bacon, head of production engineering at the company's Millville,
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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TWO NEW MARKINGS
It's small wonder that the interest in collecting foreign insulators is
growing steadily. There is always a new discovery just around the corner! This
month I will show you two markings that are new on the scene, even though they
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