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standard, with eight uprights, designed to carry 1,000 wires. The 

 numerous other fixtures the presence of which a close examination 

 of the picture reveals, and the manner in which the neighbouring 

 buildings are dotted with insulators, afford some notion of the 

 extent to which the upper air of Stockholm is netted with telephone 

 wires. The system of roofing with iron plates which prevails in 

 Stockholm is also clearly shown. Fig. 126 shows a type of 

 standard employed at the junction of several routes, and fig. 127 



FIG. 124. Telephone turret at So Jermalm. 



one of the aerial cable rests that have become somewhat numerous 

 since the reconstruction consequent on the change to metallic cir- 

 cuits and the re-grouping of the exchanges compelled a rather 

 extensive resort to that mode of construction. The company's 

 ground poles are not so noteworthy as its standards : indeed, there 

 is nothing to pit against those of Belgium, Holland, or Switzerland, 

 although solidity and strength are not wanting. Cross-arms on 

 ground poles are often of angle-iron and not unfrequently of the 



