Lawford Road, New Bilton, Rugby Warwickshire With thanks to AgentHalogen_87 for informing me of these Survivors. Attached to the front of the Holly Bush public house, on the corner of New Street, are three GEC Z9490 lanterns, which, if they are old enough, would have run 45-60 Watt SO/H / SOI/H (low pressure sodium) lamps originally, but in later years, would have accommodated 35 Watt SOX lamps instead, which are the same physical size as the earlier 60 Watt lamps were. Curiously, two of the lanterns are angled in such a way that they appear to be directed to face, and thus, illuminate, the pub's central stone sign that is set into the 1930s' brickwork; however, with both this lamp type generally, and the design of the Z9490, this arrangement would result in the walls being lit in a rather general way, without any strong emphasis on the sign itself.
Three of the four outer-facing corners on the front of the building are home to the Z9490s - surprisingly, there is no wall bracket on the left-hand corner; nor does one ever have appeared to exist there.
The close-up demonstrates the deliberately-angled nature of the inner two Z9490s nicely, along with two LED floodlights that (presumably) have superseded the operation of the older lanterns.
Despite the aluminium canopies being grimy, none are drilled for photocells, and the GEC logo is plainly visible, thanks to the angled nature of the lanterns.
The right-hand side of the building demonstrates the difference between the angled and correctly-positioned lanterns.
The tilted nature of this lantern has allowed rainwater to seep in, and then become trapped on (what would be ordinarily) the side of the bowl.
The bowls on the lanterns that are orientated correctly are not much better, with internal dirt causing the bowl to appear translucent, and thus, obscure any lamps that may still be fitted.
The lanterns are seen again from the adjacent side of the road to the pub.
Each lantern is supplied in flexible cable, which terminates into connection points connected in Mineral-Insulated cable that passes into the building.
The brick into which this bracket is bolted has shattered from expansion of the fixing bolts.
A possible glimpse of one lamp is afforded in this angle - if a lamp is what can be seen here, it appears to be somewhat shorter than the bowl itself is, and could be a 45 Watt lamp instead; in this case, these lanterns mustn't have worked in decades, as no SOX equivalent of this wattage was produced - the later 18 Watt SOX-E lamp is not the same size, and requires different control gear to operate correctly.
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