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Website Updates

Friday, 14th October 2022

Collection

  Lanterns page updated with the additions of an AEL Contempo 245, an ELECO HW-898, a GEC Z5640, a GEC Z9536, and a Revo 'Hyperion B' A42.304.
  The following pages are updated with photographs detailing the restorations (and installations, in some cases) of the:
  Thorn Alpha 1 (my very first lantern!) page updated with new images to celebrate twenty years of collecting.
  Thorn Alpha Eight page updated with images of the lantern fitted with the 'correct' type of bowl.
  Thorn Alpha 2000 page updated with additional images.
  Thorn Beta Five (1970) page updated with an image of the replica gear tray label.
  Thorn Beta Five (1983) page updated with new images.
  Thorn Beta Five (1989) page updated with new images.
  Thorn Beta Five (2000) page updated with new images.
  Crompton GLS Lamps page updated, with a 25 Watt example.
  Cryselco GLS Lamps page added.
  Ediswan GLS Lamps page added.
  Mazda GLS Lamps page updated, with 15, 75 and 200 Watt examples.
  OSRAM GLS Lamps page updated, with a 150 Watt Dichroic reflector lamp example.
  Philips GLS Lamps page updated, with 40 and 150 Watt examples.
  Thorn GLS Lamps page updated, with a 15 Watt example.
  Westinghouse GLS Lamps page added.
  Philips Mercury Vapour Lamps page updated, with a 250 Watt example dating from 1970.
  Venture Metal Halide Lamps page updated, with a 250 Watt tubular example.
  Vision High Pressure Sodium Lamps page added, with a 1 Kilowatt example.
  Vision Low Pressure Sodium Lamps page added, with an 18 and 35 Watt example.
  Vision Metal Halide Lamps page added, with a 100 Watt example.
  INDO LED Lamps page added, with a 3·5 Watt example.
  GEC / OSRAM Low Pressure Sodium Control Gear page updated, with various components.
  Harvard High Pressure Sodium / Metal Halide Control Gear page added, with a 140 Watt CPO-TW ballast.
  Parry / Parmar / Venture High Pressure Sodium / Metal Halide Control Gear page updated, with a selection of electronic ballasts.
  Vision High Pressure Sodium / Metal Halide Control Gear page updated, with a selection of electronic ballasts.
  Vision Low Pressure Sodium Control Gear page added.
  Charles Endirect Photocells page added.
  Royce Thompson ER6N Photocells page added.
  Royce Thompson P10E Photocells page added.
  Royce Thompson Oasis 2000 Photocells page updated, with an example of a 35 Lux version from 2021.
  Venner Autopoint Time Switches page added.
  Other Luminaires page updated, with the addition of two 8 ft 100 Watt Crompton Crompacks.

Outdoor Photographs

  Survivors from the Past page updated with 170 new articles.
  The following Survivor articles are updated with new photographs and information:
  Local Post-Top Lanterns page updated, with details of the CU Phosco P873, and Philips 'Berlin' CDS 570.
  Local Side-Entry Lanterns page updated, with details of the ASD Highway Diamond Micro and Highway Diamond Midi, CU Phosco P855-288, Intefly Integrated Solar Light, Low Carbon Lighting Quantum+, OrangeTEK Ignis 1, and Ignis Mini+, Philips DigiStreet, TRT Aspect Eco, Aspect Zebra, and Urbis Axia 3 lanterns.
  Local ASD Highway Diamond Minis page updated, with examples in Littleover.
  Local D.W. Windsor Kirium Pros page updated, with examples in Mickleover and Littleover.
  Local Holophane V-Maxs page updated, with example in Etwall and on the A38 at Markeaton Roundabout.
  Local Holophane Wallpackette IIs page updated, with an example in Spondon.
  Local OrangeTEK AriaLEDs page updated, with examples in Oakwood.
  Local OrangeTEK Voyagers page updated, with an example in Shirebrook.
  Local Philips MA 50s page updated, with examples in Findern and Lower Hartshay.
  Local Top-Entry Thorn Beta 5s page updated, with examples of LED-converted lanterns in Matlock Bath and Marston-on-Dove.
  Local Urbis Ampera Maxis page updated, with examples on the new Swadlincote - Woodville link road.
  Derby's Street Lighting PFI - Surviving Pre-PFI Examples page updated, with videos detailing the replacements of the lights on Heron Way and Muirfield Drive, Mickleover, along with photographs of two surviving columns on Browning Street, Sunnyhill.
  Station Road Replacements page updated, with a page discussing the move to LED lighting along the road.
  Visits page updated, with the addition of a visit to the Museum of Making in Derby, and to Hill End Road, Harefield, Uxbridge.
  An ESLA for all Seasons - Summer page updated, with the addition of a photograph of the column during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend.
  The Damaged / Vandalised Installations section has been discontinued, with the associated articles transferred to the Survivors and Local Lights sections.
   
  London Underground section updated, with the following items:
 

 

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