Revo Electric : Catalogue 18 : Section 6 : street light fittings : issued by Revo Electric Co Ltd, Tipton, Staffordshire, c1955 : Revo Silvergold lanterns
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 'gold' in "Silvergold" denoted that this fitting, of an open type, used a sodium bulb as source. They comprised the C13192, C13193, C13196 and C13197 types.
Revo Electric : Catalogue 18 : Section 6 : street light fittings : issued by Revo Electric Co Ltd, Tipton, Staffordshire, c1955 : Revo Silvergold lanterns
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 'gold' in "Silvergold" denoted that this fitting, of an open type, used a sodium bulb as source. They comprised the C13192, C13193, C13196 and C13197 types.