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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.
Back on Track
After an extended period of rest from Teleramics I'm now back to install the updates provided by many kind collectors and will start to increase the depth of content.
Sold on Ebay is going away, I neither have the time to keep it upto date nor the inclination. After so many good insulators being pumped out for stupidly low prices the UK ebay insulator market is over. If only sellers used some common sense and drifted the rarer items out one at a time and less frequently they could have actually made some money instead they flooded ebay with badly described items and usually poorly photographed hence they achieved a low price. Admittedly I did pick up one or two at bargain prices
GJ-31/08/08
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
Only 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 ?
