Callender Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Erith, London.
(Note – SBH – I have created a page for this company on my website as Graces Guide, infers it had connections with Falkirk, Scotland. However, I cannot confirm whether this was a manufacturing site or perhaps a sales outlet. Further, I cannot confirm 100% whether the company manufactured terracotta electricity cable covers or had them manufactured by a separate company and stamped with the Callender name. Bricks have also been found stamped ‘Callender’) – further research and clarification are required.
From research by Ian Suddaby, we believe this CC trademark stands for Callenders Cable & Construction Ltd which apparently had connections in Falkirk, Scotland, this firm started life as Callenders Bitumen Telegraph and Waterproof Co Ltd. but the name changed in the 1890s. They made cables at a plant in Erith near London from the later 1890s and formed part of BICC in 1945. It is possible the company sourced the making of the clay covers out to various companies however it is not certain where they were made.
British Insulated Callenders Cables
29/07/1896 – London Evening Standard – New Companies – Callender’s Cable and Construction Company Limited.
1903 – Callender Cable Construction Co. Limited (William Douglas Reid, engineer), Balmoral Place, Stirling
Found in Larkhall. Note the connector lugs and recesses are located on the longest sides of this cover which is unusual as they are normally located on the shortest sides. This appears to have been manufactured to protect a very wide cable or several cables lying side by side. Unknown manufacturer but the Registered Design…
Found by Richard Comish in Barrow in Furness. Callender Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Erith, London. Terracotta electric cable cover. Danger Regd no 804561 CC Electric. Note the unexplained ‘pimpling’ Note the letter ‘G’ in ‘danger’ is of a different style to the rest.
Found Guardbridge, Fife. Callender Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Erith, London. Terracotta electric cable cover Danger Regd no 804561 CC Electric. . . Below – a Callender Electric brick or indeed a variation on an electric cable cover.
Found Guardbridge, Fife. Callender Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Erith, London. Terracotta electric cable cover. Danger Regd no 804561 CC Electric. . . Below – Electricity cover found by Brian Wardell in Northumbria. This appears to be a Callenders Cable & Construction Ltd product but without the CC trademark being stamped.
Found Clydebank, Glasgow. Callender Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Erith, London. Terracotta electric cable cover. Danger Regd no 804561 CC Electric. Note the unexplained ‘pimpling’ . Below – The same stamp on a product found in the Glasgow area. The pimpling looks different although much of it appears worn so it is hard to say…
Found Newcastle upon Tyne. Unknown manufacturer but the Registered Design Number 804561 is the same as that which is often stamped on similar electricity cable covers manufactured by the Callender Cable and Construction Co Ltd, Erith, London. . . . . Below – 2 X similar covers of different sizes. Note the ‘pimples’ to either…
