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unknown medium swan neck bracket

This bracket came from Bristol, and stood on a cast iron column (probably originally gas). It was part of a 1950s installation which removed in 1972, as the Bristol Corporation replaced their old 100W tungsten lamp swan-necked lanterns with Atlas Gamma Six lanterns. (The Gamma Sixes and their associated columns were removed in 2007).

The bracket is fitted with a superb old REVO C5329 cast iron box, complete with cover. It has a rather odd square spigot cap, but hopefully that will fit my spigots!

It's probably the last remaining example of the 2000 Bristol swan-necks (as the Bristol Corporation put in an order for 2000 Atlas Gamma Sixes)... this is, apart from the other Bristol swan-neck in my collection.

The lantern is a BTH Rural Open and is missing its refractor.

Many thanks to Dave for offering it to me, and originally rescuing it from the council all those years ago.