U-1942: Greece

3 3/8" X 5 3/8" (83mm X 132mm)

 

(front skirt inkstamp) OTE                        

(rear skirt inkstamp)

{galvanized metal cap}

{Kloster Veilsdorf

 

Picture courtesy Bob Berry

This is a dryspot insulator where the top unscrews to expose openings inside the skirt and wire groove to allow a telephone drop wire to pass through the insulator to provide a "dry spot" from rain and decrease leakage loss. 

U number assignment from Worldwide Porcelain Insulators 1986 Supplement by Marilyn Albers & Jack Tod.


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