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Teleramics - British Insulators on the web!
Within the confines of this UK based site, I have tried to show examples of UK Railway Telegraph and a few British non railway insulators collected by myself over the past few years.
The whole site is still growing / developing and any information you can offer on any of the subjects covered would be appreciated.
Information sections have been broken down in to: Insulator Types, Insulator Manufactures, People involved in the development of the Telegraph system and as a consequence insulators.
Other individual pages contain data / images of markings, insulators in use and items for sale.
Please feel free to comment about any aspect of the site and thanks for visiting the virtual home of British insulators in the UK.
For Sale
The Insulators for sale section is now up and running with just Potheads, Standard Cordeauxs and Terminators listed at the moment
As time progresses, I will be adding Shackles, Terminators and other odds and ends
GJ-14/08/06
Laycock Plastics
A simple advert from 1951 has brought a new manufacturer to light, Laycock Plastics. Laycock Plastics were part of the Birfield group and under their full name, Laycock Engineering, are probably better know for the Overdrives.
I know Birfield became part of the GKN empire but if any one could shed any light of the Laycock Plastics side of things, I would be grateful
The full advert from which this image came from can be seen in the advert section
Fact of the day!
In 1951 British Railways had 400 telephone exhanges, operated 175,000 telephones serviced by 600,000 telepgraph poles and 500,000 miles of telephone and telegraph wire
Source - More Facts and Figures from BR 1951
Now if we take an average figure of insulators per telegraph pole and multiply it by the number of poles, 600,000, then there must have been ..... !
Anyone prepared to take up the challenge and justify their result ?
