I have acquired more column catalogues.

Metal Developments "Sheerline" column.

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CU Edinburgh

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CU Midway X

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Stanton 10F

Thorn columns

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Many of the catalogues show "re-touched" photographs to emphasise the columns - a typical technique of the time.

Fantastic! Great to see some of the classic lanterns of the time being used as 'models'!

As like many things nowadays "they don't make them/do it like that" anymore.

Absolutely - there was a lot more thought that went into the publicity back then.



I forgot to ask - isn't that a Beta Three on the 2nd column from the right, not a Beta Two?

Yes well spotted, I hope the Thorn sales rep also noticed that! Not so much a cut and paste error as we have a today - literally a type setting error when they did things back then - they forgot to change it from the lantern on the left.

Loving all the fluorescent lantern photos on those catalogues. In an ideal world I'd like one of each please. Oh, and a Beta One also.

Article about electricity companies discussing the possibility of forcing councils to remove all street lighting attached to their equipment. This would be disastrous in my area where about 75% of all main road lighting is on the overhead network and around 50% of residential too. It all spirals from the death of a BT engineer when working on a BT/electricity network shared pole.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -each.html

Interesting article... and choice of image, it would seen! It would be far better to have used the wooden pole examples that carry overhead power lines, rather than pylons!

I fail to understand this at all... The electricity suppliers want to get rid of street lights because a phone engineer died! Street light operatives work from a fibreglass bucket on a powered access vehicle, whilst BT engineers often climb metal ladders and then climb the wood pole itself. If anything should be removed it is just the BT wires from the electricity poles, not the street lights.

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This is nothing new. In rural areas Parish Council owned lighting is having to be "moved down the pole" so that additional clearance is provided from the live wires. The lighting (where possible) must be below the height of live cabling (and the same always applied to telephone cabling). There is however no requirement to remove the lighting - so a case of the press getting their facts wrong.

Where wood poles are being replaced, often the existing poles retain the telephone cabling (as there is less structural load) and the new poles only carry the power cabling but at a greater height than before. This arrangement was implemented in my village a few years back.

In addition, for 230/415V supplies, bare conductors are no longer used, fully insulated cabling is now used and many older installations are being converted.