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MR. S. W. MELSOM, of the staff of the Cable Makers' Association, has contributed a paper on the standardization of cables and equipment, with the object of reducing distribution costs, to the Electrical Review of June 7. Discussions have been going on for several years in order to frame an acceptable set of rules. The outbreak of war prevented the embodiment in the revised British Standard Specification for mains cables of the discussions during the last two or three years. The selection of standard sizes for cables to be used in a low-voltage network is a matter almost entirely for the supply engineers. It is difficult to forecast accurately the load which a distributor will have to carry, and since the data on which estimation has to be based are somewhat nebulous, there are strong reasons for the adoption of a few—possibly not more than two—standard sizes for a given system of low-voltage four-core cables.
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Standardizing Electric Distribution Cables. Nature 146, 22 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146022a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146022a0