I have been working in an old house today and noticed some silver coloured P.V.C. insulated cable dating from the 50s/60s.. Most other cable there is grey coloured. I now know why the cable outer sheath was made in a silver colour. Do you?
It should be embossed with CAP along it's length. If so, it's capothene made by Cables and Plastics Ltd manufactured solely for the electricity boards in the late 50's to replace the BICC mix of rubber and plastics as BICC hadn't perfected mixing colours. It was lovely stuff to work with, nice and soft and flexible and I remember the red core was lighter in colour than the rubber or later BICC stuff.
Those of you who are listening to Boom Radio are the right vintage.
I will now power down my 3½ diskett and remove from my brain the drive I had fitted to assist the built in memory bank.
It should be embossed with CAP along it's length. If so, it's capothene made by Cables and Plastics Ltd manufactured solely for the electricity boards in the late 50's to replace the BICC mix of rubber and plastics as BICC hadn't perfected mixing colours. It was lovely stuff to work with, nice and soft and flexible and I remember the red core was lighter in colour than the rubber or later BICC stuff.
Those of you who are listening to Boom Radio are the right vintage.
I will now power down my 3½ diskett and remove from my brain the drive I had fitted to assist the built in memory bank.
