On the same theme:
Around the turn of the new year was a Panorama special showing several of their features from 1959. The first section about the new town of Harlow caught my eye, so went back over it and grabbed a couple of stills. Rather blurry, but...
...have you ever seen a post-top lantern that big before? Looks like it used 5-foot fluorescent tubes, any idea who could have produced it? Almost looks like a Gamma One, but bigger and with an enormous wide hat. I have seen a picture of a European lantern that rivals that one in size, don`t recall the manufacturer in that case, but you would have thought a new British town would use British-produced lanterns in the 1950s. Almost certainly not still there though, wonder how long it remained?
Also in the recent Top Gear episode where James May takes one of the designers of the UK`s road signs out and about for a drive, in some vintage footage played during the feature are some early top entry lanterns:
Not sure where that film was taken, but the lanterns look like they may be for vertical MA mercury lamps. The more distant one on the right in the second picture looks different to the others, possibly a GEC Diffractor or similar. Any ideas?