Station Lighting by Ionlite : Ionlite Ltd., London NW10 : advert in "The Railway Gazette", 9 September 1958
It just goes to show that you can never be too careful! I had usually credited these fluorescent lanterns for British Railways station platforms to GEC as part of their 'Clearmain' product range but here is evidence of at least one other manufacturer. The Falks Organisation was a long standing electrical and lighting supplier based around Falk, Stadelmann Co Ltd of London and the Ionlite Limited was one of their subsidiaries based in Scrubs Lane, London, NW10.
This 1958 advert shows a range of lanterns that included the 'Overlite' for post mounting and the Trilite for under canopy fittings. They can be seen with the Gill Sans lettering forming the station name and such installations became common on BR stations fromt he late 1950s onwards. Indeed a few still survive such as at Manchester Oxford Road. The larger Newlite lantern, with vertical tubes, was found I think as a few of the rebuilt BR stations of the period, possibly as at Chichester.
Station Lighting by Ionlite : Ionlite Ltd., London NW10 : advert in "The Railway Gazette", 9 September 1958
It just goes to show that you can never be too careful! I had usually credited these fluorescent lanterns for British Railways station platforms to GEC as part of their 'Clearmain' product range but here is evidence of at least one other manufacturer. The Falks Organisation was a long standing electrical and lighting supplier based around Falk, Stadelmann Co Ltd of London and the Ionlite Limited was one of their subsidiaries based in Scrubs Lane, London, NW10.
This 1958 advert shows a range of lanterns that included the 'Overlite' for post mounting and the Trilite for under canopy fittings. They can be seen with the Gill Sans lettering forming the station name and such installations became common on BR stations fromt he late 1950s onwards. Indeed a few still survive such as at Manchester Oxford Road. The larger Newlite lantern, with vertical tubes, was found I think as a few of the rebuilt BR stations of the period, possibly as at Chichester.