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The author considers time harmonic electromagnetic fields in the absence of displacement currents, a problem arising in the manufacture of generators for power plants. He investigates a two part system, with the inner part containing the generator and shows that existence and uniqueness results for these are not affected when the unbounded outer part is replaced by a bounded one. It is pointed out that, when the inner surface is not simply connected, solutions are not unique and a method whereby this difficulty may be overcome is indicated. A discretisation process suitable for numerical analysis is discussed and it is pointed out that for an actual problem, the matrices which arise are difficult to handle and that it is necessary to use Krylov subspace methods. The author indicates that different methods have to be used for short recurrence relations and long recurrence relations. The ideas discussed are applied to three test problems. It is suggested that the stabilised biconjugate gradient method is on the whole the most suitable.