57AL. Off Queensway, Coppenhall, Crewe, Cheshire With thanks to Leo Conway for discovering this Survivor. Located in a compound behind some of the shops is a wall bracket supporting a GEC Z8430CM lantern, for 250 - 400 Watt MBF (mercury vapour) lamps. This type of lantern seems to have been the preferred lantern of choice for the Queensway precinct development when it was constructed in the late 1950s, and may have been a brand new product on the market at the time; the Z8430CM replacing the original Z8430 by featuring a redesigned glass refractor bowl that optimised the shape and output of the then-new high pressure mercury lamps with external phosphor coating. Previously, the lantern catered for the medium pressure (MA)-type lamps instead; the 'CM' suffix representing "Corrected Mercury".

The lantern is visible above the gates that secure the yard area.

As there are no cables emerging from the wall bracket, these must pass into the building, where, presumably, the lamp control gear will be situated - or, if not now, where it would have been.

The early-morning sunlight glinted in the refractor bowl.

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