Author Topic: Suspension Radial Porcelain Street Light 1940's  (Read 2103 times)
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Suspension Radial Porcelain Street Light 1940's « on: October 19, 2019, 10:31:23 AM » Author: GE101R
Classic porcelain radial in the middle of a bustling small city in the 1940's.
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Re: Suspension Radial Porcelain Street Light 1940's « Reply #1 on: October 19, 2019, 11:45:57 AM » Author: fluorescent lover 40
Very nice! Shame we don't have many spanwire setups now.
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Re: Suspension Radial Porcelain Street Light 1940's « Reply #2 on: October 20, 2019, 11:21:36 AM » Author: wide-lite 1000
Some were still in use in the 1990's but I am sure long gone by now.

I still see them frequently when I go to Michigan ! Granted they are not radial waves ! https://www.lighting-gallery.net/index.php?topic=7506.0
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Re: Suspension Radial Porcelain Street Light 1940's « Reply #3 on: October 20, 2019, 11:28:53 PM » Author: joseph_125
One of the coolest lighting setups I've seen in the past was a spanwire LPS install on one of the Quebec highways that had the fixtures running parallel to the roadway. Unfortunately they're gone now but they lasted long enough to been photographed by street view.

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Re: Suspension Radial Porcelain Street Light 1940's « Reply #4 on: October 22, 2019, 12:39:24 AM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
I didn't realize span wire was a rarity elsewhere.

Span wire is a pretty common occurrence here. Both mercury and HPS. Side roads, highways, country roads. They're used all over the place.

Sometimes they're mounted in groups of two or three on the same wires
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