http://www.simplyyorkshire.fpic.co.uk/p62601176.htmlbigger bracket... but this photo is too old for that lantern to be a WRTL 2600!
That is definitely a 2600, but it would be too old to call it WRTL. The photos probably only date back to the early 1990s. Industria launched the 2600 in about 1986.
I can concur with that. Industria 2600s were installed from 1987 onwards in my area. What the example in the picture is doing on a busy main road like that is anybody's guess though!
Here's a few on Geograph for you of the good old Blackpool tramway (but from the Fleetwood end because the lighting is more interesting!
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http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1616175The first 'Tram Sunday' in 1985. This shows the Alpha 3s on Fabrikat columns which used to light Radcliffe Road, Fleetwood at this time. I well remember these, the columns were painted white with a red base and looked very smart. The trams are Brush railcoach 625 (fastest tram in the fleet, unofficially!) and making it's debut as an open-topper that year, 706 which is now named Princess Alice.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1615930Another shot from the same day showing more of the Alpha 3s which extended onto the first part of Lord Street. The trams are 706 again and Dreadnought 59 which is now in storage in Clay Cross in Derbyshire.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1619234From 1986 a nice shot of the long-gone OMO 9 on Lord Street, Fleetwood with a Fabrikat column in the background complete with GEC Turtle (the older black-canopied version). These ran SON at this point although I'm not sure if they were MBF to begin with.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1436512A better shot of the Turtles from 1974 when they could have well been MBF. I think these were quite new then. The previous lanterns were GEC Z8430s which were mounted on brackets attached to the tram poles. The tram is one of Blackpool's more quirky designs, the Progress Twin-Car, in this case, 684/74.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1654578In the Broadwater area of Fleetwood in 1992. This was a common installation in the town back then, a Stanton 8G column with Thorn Alpha 9. The tram is Brush Railcoach 622.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1601306Pharos Street, Fleetwood, 1983. In the background are GEC Z8381 fluorescent lanterns, some mounted to tram poles. I'm not sure what the fluorescent lantern in the foreground is, possibly an AEI Fleetwood? All of these fluorescents had been replaced by SOX lanterns by 1985. The tram is English Electric Railcoach 679 which has now been rebuilt back into it's original 'streamlined' shape and will make it's debut in that form later this year.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1601904I like this one! Taken in 1983 on The Esplanade in Fleetwood, in the foreground is a CU New Highway column with GEC Z8381 lantern and in the background is a Fabrikat column with Thorn Gamma 3 running SON. Soon after this the CU column was sleeved and fitted with a SON Alpha 3. The trams are 710 and the old-shape 724 which now has a big boxy body like a 1970s bus
If anybody likes these I'll dig some more out and put them on.