A lovely crisp winter's day (in Manchester anyway) and I've been out taking pics...soon to appear on my site...however there are a couple of luminaires I found...
All the GEC gear-in-head lanterns have gone from the pedestrianised part of Abbeygate Street, and been replaced by the forementioned eyesore downlighters,...
Sorry for the crosspost- I don't know how many of you bother with the American group as well...there's a new video of a HPS lamp warming up on my site at ...
The local council are starting to do a mass replacement for rusty/unsafe Alpha 3's replacing them with these but i don't have a clue what they are...are they...
Anyone know what latern this is? Are they any good? The local council is replacing all the unsafe lighting in town with these..replacing the Columns with thick...
Inspired by Sander Sloot's 'wegscenes' pages and Jon's 'lighingtelephoto' amongst others, I've collected together some 'street scene' type pics I've taken...
Hi all There is a new article on Revo 5m post top mercuries at Farnham. I'd be grateful if anyone could supply me with a catalogue number! Regards Jon...
Hi All, I was yesterday in Nijmegen. I met there another dutch streetlight enthousiast. He showed me the lampposts in his town and i had taken a lot of...
I think it was Phil who asked a while back if anyone had any pictures of magnetic arc deflectors. Well, Bob reminded me indirectly that I did have some...
Hi all and Mike Finally got around to loking at the pictures of Mikes Esla going up. It looks excellent! I agree about the old sangamo case as well(was it Mike...
Hi Everyone, Just to let everyone know that the old type GEC lantern is still available, if anyone wants it. Best regards Mike Michael Docherty Test Engineer ...
Hi Mike(Boyd) Please find attached a link to the site owned by Mike Barford, the photos that Bob refers to are in the Collection Pages, under the 155 ESLA...
Folks... These are cropping up quite a lot in the local press recently...this one's interesting in that it mentions the colour of the light being a problem and...
Tonight took a closer look at some recently-installed lanters I had previously thought used metal halide, and was a bit puzzled. Resembling a little the...
Following the recent discussion about the scarcity of Alpha 2's (no, I don't know of any in situ either!) I was wondering how common functioning Beta 6's are...
Hi all, I thought you might be interested about the following two lanterns. (NB: they are both privately owned, and therefore not used for street lighting). An...
Hi all, I noticed when I was in town today that the GEC Z8534 (Z8536?) lanterns on upwardly tilted wall brackets in Abbeygate Street have been removed and...
Hi All, Just to let you know - the ESLA is working now. I've put some pictures on the site under the "'Finished and Working' ESLA Photographs" page. I'll get...
I've been restoring my Thorn Alpha Nine and after a vigourous cleaning (involving the removal of three dead wasps) I discovered that the canopy on the inside...
A thirdy party has several old REVO lanterns for sale. (I'm not sure what the collective noun for REVO lanterns is, and I was going to suggest a Raft Of REVOs,...
Hi Everyone, I have just repaired one of the Philips EXC035 electronic ballasts for 35w SOX lamps. This ballast was kindly sent to me by another collector. It...
It hasn't been working now for over a month! It just died on me. (Actually I opened the canopy forgetting it was on and it went out and hasn't lit up since). I...
I've put up some more pictures of more ill-gotten gains. These can be found in the photos section of the group (look under "Simon"). Briefly they include a...
Hi Everyone, A few weeks ago my neon making activities were mentioned, and I described the process used. I have created a neon album in the photo's section,...
Hi All, Just to let you know - the column for the ESLA has now been installed. It returned from the sandblasting folks early this morning, painted, so it could...
Evening all! Take a look at this article from a recent Manchester Evening News.. http://www.vt4c.demon.co.uk/misc/article.jpg ...about what the good citizens...
The Alpah 3s were originally designed for 250w or 400W MBF mercury lamps so you could pop these back in and change the control gear back to give white light....
Travelled through Letchworth to get to a wedding in Hitchin last weekend. I was amazed at the number of ELECO columns, brackets and lanterns - nothing very...
Hi all, Belated thanks to Mike Docherty and everyone else on their advice for reading material for SOX lamps etc. I've just got the 1966 version of "Lamps and...
