Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor comprises a shaft, a commutator fitted to the shaft and connected to a winding wound around poles of an armature core, and a noise suppressor. The noise suppressor 40 has chip capacitors 44 connected to terminal portions 38 of commutator segments 32. The capacitors 44 have a common terminal 45 connected together to form a star connection via a ring formed from a conductive layer 42 on a board 41 or from resilient wire. The capacitors 44 may be soldered to the wire ring and to the commutator segments or may be held in recesses formed in the base of the commutator in direct contact with the commutator segments under resilient urgings of the ring to form a solderless connection. It is particularly suited to rotors using mechanical connection type commutators to form solder-free rotors.