This example was found along with another in a ditch during 1991 when a New England Power Service crew was doing a pole changeover along the route of a c.1915 transmission line that served the town of Hull, MA. This line was upgraded with new poles, wire and insulators by 1940 (a fair amount of the latter still remain in service serving the municipal utility). Nothing that was removed survived except for the two forementioned insulators.

Please click "Previous" for another view of this insulator and its original tie-wire, and for detailed information about this historic electric transmission line in the Boston area.