131BA. Haxby Road, Clifton Without, York, North Yorkshire With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Installed alongside one of the exit gates to Nestlé's York factory are two 6 m tubular steel columns; one of which still retains a Thorn Gamma 3 post-top lantern. The opposite column lost its Gamma 3 at some point after May 2012, with a lantern resembling the Abacus AM 202 replacing it. The Gamma 3 was intended to run 250 - 400 Watt SON (high pressure sodium) or MBF (mercury vapour) lamps; however, owing to the lower mounting height than usual (8 m being the optimum height), a 100 - 150 Watt SON lamp could be installed instead.

The column features an unusual coupling-type device located approximately two thirds up its shaft - I assume that this was to extend the shaft to the desired height.

The lantern's base casting is painted the same green as the rest of the column is, though an earlier red paint scheme (perhaps, as a nod to the Kit-Kat chocolate biscuit, which is produced at this factory) is visible where the green has flaked away.

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