Revo Electric : Catalogue 18 : Section 6 : street light fittings : issued by Revo Electric Co Ltd, Tipton, Staffordshire, c1955 : street lighting fittings for tunsgten lamps
From the complete c1955 Revo catalogue - section 6 covers the company's still wide range of street lighting fittings and lanterns. The company's street lighting columns and brackets, as well as control gear, were covered in other sections.
The range is slightly reduced from pre-war catalogues as the once prevelent fashion of producting a bespoke lantern for each customer - often named after the town or borough it had been designed for - was being replaced by a more pared down range. Also at play was the increasing 'standardisation' of lanterns and fittings, in terms of type and output, that was driven by new national Standards on street lighting. Although the many different manufacturers still translated such Standards into many different types of lanterns it gave a company such as Revo an opportunity to produce a smaller range in a more economic manner as lantern design and lamp technology grew more complex.
Revo were a longstanding manufacturer not just of street lighting but also a wide range of electrical and domestic appliances during the mid-Twentieth century. They slowly delined after the 1970s with the street lighting being spun off into Relite and latterly other manufacturers. The works at Tipton was an almost 'vertical' production unit as Revo had large metal and concrete casting workshops to make complete product ranges. Their streetlighting sold widely across the UK and the Commonwealth although their equipment is now increasingly rare on UK roads.
The lanterns shown here, using tungsten lamps, were amongst the most prevelant fittings seen on side street and country lanes for many years. Of older designs, those with a plain enamelled reflector still carried older names such as the "Lunella" or "Lodestar" whilst those with the distinctive "dickie-bow" design often fitted with mirrored reflectors known as "Magnalites".
Revo Electric : Catalogue 18 : Section 6 : street light fittings : issued by Revo Electric Co Ltd, Tipton, Staffordshire, c1955 : street lighting fittings for tunsgten lamps
From the complete c1955 Revo catalogue - section 6 covers the company's still wide range of street lighting fittings and lanterns. The company's street lighting columns and brackets, as well as control gear, were covered in other sections.
The range is slightly reduced from pre-war catalogues as the once prevelent fashion of producting a bespoke lantern for each customer - often named after the town or borough it had been designed for - was being replaced by a more pared down range. Also at play was the increasing 'standardisation' of lanterns and fittings, in terms of type and output, that was driven by new national Standards on street lighting. Although the many different manufacturers still translated such Standards into many different types of lanterns it gave a company such as Revo an opportunity to produce a smaller range in a more economic manner as lantern design and lamp technology grew more complex.
Revo were a longstanding manufacturer not just of street lighting but also a wide range of electrical and domestic appliances during the mid-Twentieth century. They slowly delined after the 1970s with the street lighting being spun off into Relite and latterly other manufacturers. The works at Tipton was an almost 'vertical' production unit as Revo had large metal and concrete casting workshops to make complete product ranges. Their streetlighting sold widely across the UK and the Commonwealth although their equipment is now increasingly rare on UK roads.
The lanterns shown here, using tungsten lamps, were amongst the most prevelant fittings seen on side street and country lanes for many years. Of older designs, those with a plain enamelled reflector still carried older names such as the "Lunella" or "Lodestar" whilst those with the distinctive "dickie-bow" design often fitted with mirrored reflectors known as "Magnalites".