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PostPosted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 2:11 am 
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What height are the columns for those GEC Flying Saucers? Because something here doesn't tally up for me... the GEC ZD10547 design was made so as to neatly fit in-line with octagonal profile concrete columns - to access the lamps, the bowl is lowered on a holding device by means of drop rods, and this holding device slides over the concrete column of which you need about 1ft of clearance for lamp access. Now these columns are either 10m or 12m versions (seen from a distance) that are unusually thick, in which case at ground level their diameter would be substantial; or these lanterns are a smaller version of the ZD10547, possibly a reproduction.

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Those are standard octagonal saucers, but they must have their lamps changed using a different method.


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The other thing is the bowl holder assembley has to be in the lowered position in order to get access to the grub screws - so the bowl would have to be open in order to install the lantern. The bowl when raised slots into a deep groove within the canopy, so the canopy cannot be rotated and unscrewed without the bowl being at least partially lowered - and unscrewing the canopy would tangle up all the wires going to the lamps.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:12 pm 
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Rojojnr wrote:
Came across three great survivors in Southwark in London on Saturday!

Lighting the car park of the Bankside House Hotel & B&B on Sumner Street, around the back of the Tate Modern Gallery in London, are two GEC Flying Saucers on concrete columns which double up as signposts. I think they look brilliant here and really in-keep with the architecture!


Thanks -- I posted about these a couple of months ago, but it's good to see some proper photography as opposed to just a GSV.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:07 pm 
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Hertfordshire still has many relics but I was amazed to find this just a few miles from the A1(M)/M25 junction.

Column and bracket are in perfect condition.

Nearby are other examples that have had lanterns replaced, but this example is the same style of column but with the later “more modern” bracket.

Another oddity a modern steel column but with an Eleco HW509, the lantern must have been reused off the old CU column.

Finally a trio of Phosco P125s.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:11 pm 
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Some good finds there!

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Finally a trio of Phosco P125s.


There are still plenty of these dotted around Potters Bar, however many have since been replaced by XGS103s or, in more recent cases, LED lanterns.


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:15 pm 
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Most likely gone now, but a quirky installation

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.44201 ... 312!8i6656


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:20 pm 
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The other thing is the bowl holder assembley has to be in the lowered position in order to get access to the grub screws - so the bowl would have to be open in order to install the lantern. The bowl when raised slots into a deep groove within the canopy, so the canopy cannot be rotated and unscrewed without the bowl being at least partially lowered - and unscrewing the canopy would tangle up all the wires going to the lamps.

There are 2 versions of this lantern; one where the bowl drops down around the column, the other where the canopy is removed to gain access to the lamps. I don't know for sure but I believe they may utilise the same ZD number. The one in the picture obviously uses the latter method.


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Ah well that clears things up then... must be a later model.

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Private fluorescent installations survive along the bank of the Thames; these are owned by the City of London School, which I visited on Open House back in September.

Here are a few of photographs that I took:
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