What a sight that exhibition must have been. You just would not get that sort of thing nowadays. Even if you went to the headquarters of a street lighting manufacturer in most cases you would not find an exhibition outside (CU Phosco is the exception). All those manufacturers basically just showing off their products proudly. And it wasn't as if that exhibition was the only one, there were a few more publically accessible street lighting exhibitions elsewhere in the old days too, although none quite with that quantity of columns along a straight section of road!
Something at the exhibition that would have been great to see in real life:
File comment: Quad Siemens Kuwait
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What a monster! What appears to be a quad Siemens Kuwait installation!
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On a separate note, Happy 60th Birthday to the surviving original columns and lanterns in
this photograph.