163C. Off Warwick Road, Spon End, Coventry, West Midlands With thanks to Dwight for informing me of this Survivor. Situated at the entrance to a car repair garage is an ELECO 'Silverline' 15 ft (5 m) tubular aluminium column that is fitted with a non-standard steel swan neck bracket and Holophane 'Bi-Way Refractor Lantern' (320). This is an unusual lantern to use at such a low mounting height, as it is designed for installation on main roads, at a significantly greater height. There is a possibility that the equipment could have been installed here second-hand, as the column is likely to be a 1960s' product, whereas the lantern may be from the 1950s.
The column is tucked in behind the left-hand gate post when viewed from Warwick Road.
The steel bracket must have screwed into the aluminium spigot cap at the top of the column. Notice the 90 degree conduit inspection piece that serves as the necessary means of allowing a top-entry lantern to be accommodated here.
Despite the low mounting height, the glass refractor bowl is undamaged.
A high wattage elliptical-shaped discharge lamp still occupies the interior of the lantern.
A surface-mounted steel wire armoured supply cable terminates into the column at ground level. The combination of this and the lamp's presence raises the possibility that this installation might still work.
Another view from Warwick Road itself.
As the lantern's internal thread will be somewhat larger than the conduit inspection bend's thread is, various couplers are used to change between the two threads.
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