... insulators are Westinghouse pieces. The suspensions are Ohio brass pieces from the 1920's to 1930's according to Charles Robinson's opinion based on ...

... photos in high quality Russian suspensions insulators in use ...

This looks like a similar lip on the cap as shown in . That is my number PB17 in the BIG inventory at http://www.berkshireinsulatorgallery.org/catalog_porc_brown.html. The markings were faint on the cap but i'm pretty ...

... a different design from the standard suspensions and fog suspensions which provide the smallest possible profile . These fog bells have a vast ...

I hung these up two years ago. Found two in local antique shops. The other's online. Need to wait for a sunny day.

... is the answer. I got a string of these suspensions from John Contreras about 3 years ago when he made his first trip up to the 2007 Merritt Insulator ... several more strings of San Diego area suspensions for me ...

"Taken from Birth of an insulator an OB Booklet " Hers a picture of the atomatic glazing process.

"Taken from Birth of an insulator an OB Booklet " Here are suspension insulators in the mold

"Taken from Birth of an insulator an OB Booklet " A pair of automatic suspension insulator production lines.

... on two of the porcelain Cegelec suspensions. They are not much better in real life but holding them you can maybe squint and get a bit more. ...

Cap is marked CEGELEC, 10 inch brown porcelain low profile. The skirt has 7 digit number . May be Canadian or French manfacture. Unknown at this time. The marking on the porcelain appears to be a seven digit number, ...

... . On the roof there's some brown suspensions on some structure of sorts, and behind them there's some more jeffery dweitts, but uniparts this ...

Here's a pole with some nice j-d suspensions still in use, first time i've seen this in ohio. This line (used) to serve a nearby factory (or ...

... newer one, and a couple of burried J-D suspensions, one of which was in good enough shape to keep ...

Same suspensions on corner pole ...

Transmission line upgrade ......Their rubber but they sure are a pretty blue .

I admit I stole thiese pictures from various sources. Thank you. While there may be better examples out there I picked these to illistrate various examples of just some of the different styles of suspension ...

This shot shows some of the rusty iron bridge supports. Imagine painting this bridge... as soon as you finish painting the thing, you'd have to go back to the other end and start painting it again!

Here is a closeup of a keystone in one of the suspension bridge support structures.

I had to lean over the guard rail to get this photo. It's amazing to see cars driving over this bridge completed in 1865! Just think of all the cases and barrels of Hemingray insulators that were sent over this bridge ...

Here is a nice portrait of the suspension bridge designers with Covington in the background. The Hemingray factory is at the far right (building with smokestacks).

... in on that mulipart instead of the suspensions ...

Here's the hardware, forgot about the blurieness but it's alright. As you can see (maybe not, but it's pretty rusted so you get the idea), the first loop is competely rusted through and so it bears no weight. That's ...

Here's that chain of suspensions I found in the mud a month or so ago, nice and cleaned up now, or as clean as it could get. ...

... up 214, a fuse, and a couple strings of suspensions ...