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
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:
Uttoxeter
Column 2 of Northfield Close, with a small pool of water situated in the bowl:
The column door is strapped shut with a cable-tie:
Column 1 of Northfield Close is photographed below:
The lantern switched on, igniting the 26W SOX-E lamp.
Being a remote-geared lantern, the gear is stuffed onto the column's backboard. The ballast is quite rusted, but the ignitor and capacitor are in much better nick! The gear is a replacement, having been installed on 21st January 1995.
Column C2 of the adjacent street The Lawns was pictured next.
What appears to be a Royce Thompson P42 two-part detector (or something very similar) is employed here.
Column C1:
