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We focus on Product Categories: Duct Seals | Cable Cleats | Cable Glands | Electrical Safety | Arc Flash Protection | Cable Jointing Tools | Cable Pulling | Earthing | Feeder Pillars | Cable Joints LV | Joints & Terminations MV HV
We provide guidance and technical support for the installation of LV, MV & HV Cable Joints, Terminations, Substation & Electrical Equipment from our Key Suppliers including:
3M |
CMP |
Ellis Patents |
Nexans Euromold |
Elastimold |
Pfisterer |
Prysmian |
Alroc |
CSD |
Roxtec |
CATU Electrical |
Cembre |
Lucy Zodion |
ABB |
Emtelle |

With Photo Blog contributions from our social network of utility professionals, linesmen and cable jointers working on MV HV EHV cables and overhead lines typically at 11kV, 33kV, 66kV and up to 132kV.
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Published 30 Mar 2021
uploaded by Chris Dodds | Sales Marketing Manager at Thorne & Derrick Picture the scene, its 1936 and in San Francisco harbour a ship arrives from Baltimore having travelled through the Panama Canal bringing with it 6 reels of submarine telephone cable which is transferred to a waiting barge....
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Published 07 Nov 2019
uploaded by: Chris Dodds | Sales & Marketing Manager Thorne & Derrick International Pictured: The Kiss of Life – A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after contacting a low voltage overhead line wire. 1967. Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, this photo called “The Kiss of Life” shows a utility worker...
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Published 03 Sep 2019
Image: BT.com THORNE & DERRICK Thorne & Derrick are national distributors of LV, MV & HV Cable Installation, Jointing, Substation & Electrical Equipment – servicing businesses involved in cabling, jointing, substation, earthing, overhead line and electrical construction at LV, 11kV, 33kV, 66kV and EHV. Supplying a complete range of...
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Published 03 Sep 2019
Image: BT.com THORNE & DERRICK Thorne & Derrick are national distributors of LV, MV & HV Cable Installation, Jointing, Substation & Electrical Equipment – servicing businesses involved in cabling, jointing, substation, earthing, overhead line and electrical construction at LV, 11kV, 33kV, 66kV and EHV. Supplying a complete range of...
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Published 03 Sep 2019
uploaded by Chris Dodds – Sales & Marketing Manager at Thorne & Derrick Courtesy of BT a nostalgic and photographic record recalling bygone days of engineers laying, jointing and installing telephone and power cables. Engineers Working On The Construction Of The New London Central Exchange, 1901. Laying Underground Cables...
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