REVO Leicester Lantern Installations

Originally dating back to the 1930s, the REVO Leicester was designed for tungsten and mercury lamps. It's distinctive hexagonal shape featured six glass panels on each side, with another smaller six at the bottom. It was available for post-top or top-entry mounting.

King's Bromley

Column E1 of King's Bromley is a stunning installation; a wooden column with an elaborate top-entry bracket. On this top-entry bracket hangs a true beauty, the town's REVO Leicester. Nicknamed "The jewel of the town", this installation dates back to the 1930s.

Inside is a 250W SON-E lamp, although this lamp-type has changed throughout the years. Originally, this lantern would have ran 250W MA/V (medium-pressure mercury discharge). Afterwards, 250W MBF/U would have been used, with a 250W SON-T lamp taking it's place later down the line. In due course, this was swapped for 250W SON-E. It's also worth noting that the polycarbonate side-panels were recently changed to glass (which is probably why a coated lamp was used after the SON-T lamp). To see the lantern before this change, Mike Barford's page on this village has some images.

From beneath, the lantern is a unique hexagonal shape. The bottom panels are still polycarbonate, hence the yellowing.

The lantern's gear box and column number are present about 4m above ground-level.

The REVO Tipton box was repainted recently, but is still original.