213D.
Tan Bank, Telford, Shropshire Situated
within the car park for a building now belonging to the Citizens' Advice Bureau
is a 20 ft (6 m) Stewart & Lloyd tubular steel column supporting an Advanced
Electrical Industries (AEI) 'Brampton' lantern - the forerunner to the Atlas /
Thorn Alpha 7. The mounting height is unusual - the Brampton was designed for
installation on taller, main road, columns, and could run a 250 - 400 Watt
mercury vapour (MBF) lamps. Presumably, the column was installed to provide
illumination to the car park after nightfall, rather than general street
lighting.
The Brampton is attached to a short outreach bracket
with a slight up-tilt.
A glass refractor bowl provides the lantern's optical
control.
With AEI's Street Lighting division becoming part of the
British Lighting Industries group in 1967 (which would become Thorn Lighting Ltd
two years later), this installation was around sixty years old in 2023.
The Brampton would have been a contemporary product with
the similar-looking
GEC Z8430CM.
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