111GB. Hornbeam, Amington, Tamworth, Staffordshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of this Survivor. Attached to a wall facing into a small communal parking area is a GEC Z8896 lantern, for 80 - 125 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) and 50 - 70 Watt SON (high pressure sodium) lamps. This particular example is wired to run the former lamp type, as the wall box to which it is mounted is missing its inspection door, allowing the MBF lamp control gear to be observed.
Although there are several similar parking areas on Hornbeam, this is the only one where a Z8896 exists, as far as I can ascertain. Out of shot to the right, in the centre of the parking area, is a tubular steel column supporting a WRTL 2600.
The supply cable emerges through the brickwork, which could be one reason that this installation has remained extant.
As with the first example seen on the previous page, the Z8896's bowl must be acrylic, as it has not yellowed, as a polycarbonate bowl would have.
The exposed box innards reveal that the supply cable terminates into a Lucy cut-out, with a now-disused two-part photocell wiring block positioned above (a Royce Thompson P42 detector remains in place on the Z8896's canopy).
A miniature photocell positioned on the side of the enclosure now provides the automatic switching. The lamp control gear is positioned on a tray that is screwed to the internal backboard - a Vossloh-Schwabe ballast being employed to operate the lamp, although its markings have worn away, preventing the wattage from being confirmed.
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