ELECO GR501 Lantern Installations

The ELECO GR501 was a popular 35W/55W SOX lantern in the UK. It was a small lantern, with no room for an integral gear. Consequently, the gear was always in the column's base or a gear-box. The canopy was made from aluminium, and the lantern was sometimes painted white; The polycarbonate bowl almost always suffered some yellowing.

Alrewas

Column E1 of the ironically named Dark Lane supports a GR501. Columns E2 and E3 support newer replacement lanterns (with E3 being a new column): an MI26 and WRTL 2600. These columns would have also had ELECO GR501s installed previously.

Against the white backdrop, a 26W SOX-E lamp's silhouette is clear, and a two-part photocell detector is seen poking out of the canopy.

The lantern is extremely narrow, having room for the lamp and photocell control, but nothing else.

Barton-under-Needwood

A few columns on Park Road feature ELECO GR501, all running what-appear-to-be 26W SOX-E lamps.

Column E4:

Both columns E28 and E29 were pictured next. The lamp in the closest example doesn't look too healthy!

Column E29: