Hi Steven. It's amazing what you can find in such old photographs. To my knowledge Edinburgh didn't use much fluorescent, so I was interested to hear about...
Hi Mike, I have some ornate telegraph pole mounted brackets for sale that are suitable for ESLA's . Have a look at the examples shown in my photo folder. If...
Hi All, There is a company called Colour-Rail who supply first class copy slides of railways, but also have some incredible colour slides of UK trams and...
Hi - talking of bus pictures, I saw a shot of Reading in such a book last week, and was intrigued to see some lanterns similar to the GEC Lewisham but with a...
Hi Mike The guy wrote to me asking what it was worth. I told him that an excellent threeway ESLA with a nice bracket went for £85! Hence he has started at ...
Hi All Does any one know what a eye-ode or i-ode lamp is and what the price is If yes I would be grateful if you can help and if possible send a photo/drawing....
Hi Colin, Looks like your right, they do look exactly the same. Thanks for the info on the main differences between the two, I found it most interesting, and ...
HI. I can remember seeing one lantern ( GEC WATFORD ) with this type of post in the Reading town centre in the 80s and it is not there any more. There are some...
Hi Dan No Problems I forgot to ask is the label got SXK-36 or SXK-55 If it has SXK 36 it was supplied with a 36w SOX-E lamp it was made about the mid 1980s If...
Hi Colin, I have just looked and its an SXK-55 so I guess it was supplied as a 55W lantern, although strangely the support for the lamp is positioned for a 35W...
Thanks all - certainly seems like they were GEC Watfords! Tim, is there a picture of the lantern on the museum site? I couldn;t find one (although there was a...
Hi Dan It maybe due to the 35w SOX lamps were easyer and cheaper to buy from Electrical Wholesalers about £8 where as the 55w Lamp would cost about £10 also...
The Watford was used in plenty of towns and there was very similiar Revo equivalent ,as well as a smaller size GEC version. It was actually the first lantern...
Hi there, I have just noticed a small deposit of sodium on one of the ceramic rings that protects the electrode wire on my 140W SLI/H lamp. It's only on the...
Hi Colin nice find there- the struggling and funny looks were worth it for that! Do they replace perfectly good columns and gear as they are on a PFI contract?...
Hi Dan looks like the restoration of the 55w lantern has been continuing in a very professional manner with equal results! Good to see :o) Best Wishes, Davy ...
Hi Davy as they are contracted out the road junction is being widened and the existing coloums would be slap bang in the middle of the first lane. I think they...
Thanks Bob - could these lanterns have been used in Bournemouth do you think? (perhaps, then, the source of the Christchurch examples?) - I have a feint memory...
Hi folks It's not often I can use that subject line (more's the pity!) but a chap called Bob emailed me. He's somewhere in Northumberland and has done a nice...
Hi Phil That second one looks like a true ESLA to me. I cant see the top though. The Magnalite had only two bits of glass not lost of segments like the ESLAs. ...
Probably Bournemouth had them-Blackpool certainly did. In 1935 a brand new Watford cost £11 12s 6d in old money and a Lewisham a bit less at £10 13s and 9d-...
Hi Colin I saw inside a 250W MRL6 the other week that we then discovered had an underground supply fault- and that had a rusty choke so they must get...
Hi - so the tapered and squared mercury Clearmains and their ilk must have looked pretty modern and streamlined when they started! So in Blackpool mercury...
P.S. - in NZ Whangarei also had Lewishams in 1979 - just remembered... Cheers, Chris G. ... brand new ... £10 13s ... lurking in ... boxy ... designs. ... ...
Hi Chris, Don't worry too much about this, it is pretty normal. The ceramic collars are used to protect the lead in wires, and they help reduce electrolysis in...
Hi All I happened to go to Cardiff yesterday, and I have to say I was surprised by the condition of some of the streetlighting apparatus I saw. There were lots...
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