Derby's Street Lighting PFI Contract

The Close, Littleover

The lighting along this road consisted of 6 m tubular steel columns supporting 1980s' Thorn Beta 2 55 Watt SOX lanterns; no lantern or column changes had occurred since the below inventory records were last used officially, in 1997.

Seq. No. Lamp Number Location Lamp Type Watt Isolation Point
1 55549 SD 45 ARLINGTON RD SXPL3 35  
2 55550 OS NO 2/4 SXPL1 35  
3 55551 OS NO 5 SXPL1 35  
4 82252 OS NO 7 SXPL1 35  

The following photographs were taken on Monday, 28th September 2015.

A deep-bowled Thorn Beta 5 lantern was first from Arlington Road.

 

An early 1990s' Zodion SS5 photocell (possibly the lantern's original photocell) is fitted.

 

The following example had a shallow bowl and SS3DR photocell fitted.

 

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