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Featured in The Independent (14 August 2005)

REVO 'Clacton' with C6200 Lantern
I collect old columns, brackets, lanterns and gear. Can you help?

"We come then, inevitably, to a condition where the unfortunate Lighting Engineer is accused of spoiling our ancient cities and our beautiful ring roads with his monstrous erections when he is engaged only in what appears to him to be a praiseworthy endeavour..."

F. N. Rush, Street Lighting Sales Engineer, The Ediswan Electric Co. Ltd., lamenting that most modern lanterns look like sick serpents with carpet cleaners in their mouths (Public Lighting, p80, June 1953)