This is something i was thinking about recently. Here in Canada, Crouse-Hinds gained the rights to the old Westinghouse cobrahead lineup (as opposed to Cooper in the USA) and i own one of their OV-15s and have seen their OV-25s both on LG and in the wild. This begs the question, did they make OV-50s as well?


Here is a photograph of what i believe could very well be a Crouse-Hinds OV-50 (if they do in fact exist). Note that it has the same PC mount position as their smaller luminaires and is unlikely to be a Cooper OVL since as i said before they were never marked as cooper up here to my knowledge.

Yes, but they're called the OVL

Yes they did, but it was called the OVL. Also, Crouse-Hinds bought the rights to the Westinghouse fixture line up in both the USA and Canada, but Crouse-Hinds was later bought by Cooper, so later ones were sold by Cooper.

It was probably called the OVL up in Canada too

Yes they did, but it was called the OVL. Also, Crouse-Hinds bought the rights to the Westinghouse fixture line up in both the USA and Canada, but Crouse-Hinds was later bought by Cooper, so later ones were sold by Cooper.

I may be misinterpreting your comment but what i mean is OV-50/OVLs marked as Crouse-Hinds and not Cooper. Up here in Canada we never had cooper marked fixtures, only Crouse-Hinds ones.

Also correct me if I’m wrong but i think the OVL may have just been a US name as the equivalent Cooper/Crouse-Hinds made OV-25s were called OVWs. No fixture by that name was made up here to my knowledge and they kept calling it an OV-25 until the end.

I am saying that Crouse-Hinds likely did continue to market the OV-50 after buying Westinghouse's street and outdoor lighting division.

Also, if these three photos are to be believed, then Cooper did sell fixtures up in Canada, just like how Crouse-Hinds sold fixtures in the USA before being bought out by Cooper.

IIRC while the OV-50/OVL was rare here in Ontario, some places in Alberta used them until the 2000s, gotta wonder if they were marketed under the OV-50 or OVL name.

We still have a bunch of them on the freeways over here, although the 327 is much more common.

Cooper bought out Crouse-Hinds in 1981, and Westinghouse's luminaire division in 1982. They decided after buying both the US and Canadian works to brand them Crouse-Hinds. At some later date, Cooper (US) changed the branding to Cooper Lighting, Street Works, and Lumark.