The rotor in the distributor was a slip-on thing made of bakelite.
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar
I had acquired a small square of bakelite and I used a penknife to make a holder for the valve, twisting a few turns of wire round the pins as I could find nothing to use as a socket.
"The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece A Personal View"
Norman F. Joly
And in the hardening substance that covered them all over like a shell of cloudy brown bakelite, appeared more minute seams as it dried unevenly on the flexible human flesh beneath it.
"The Raid on the Termites"
Paul Ernst