Seeking parts for an historical refurbishment
Sun, 15 Apr 2007, 02:28 pmLogos6 posts in thread
Seeking parts for an historical refurbishment
Sun, 15 Apr 2007, 02:28 pmHi folks: I collect old lighting equipment and where possible restore it to as close to original working condition as possible. I am currently working on two old ground rows.
I have no date on these items and the only manufacturer label I have is SEECOL London pressed into the tin of the casing.
They take a standard Edison screw 150w incandescent lamp (domestic style) and they have a glass reflector. Why glass I hear you cry? That is exactly my point. There are twenty reflectors on these two ground rows and 4 (only 4) are broken.
On the back of the unbroken ones it says "Sunray" S.E.E.C.O.L London Patent No 142961.
I am wondering if anyone out there has anything similar. I will try and post a photo when I've worked out how. If you have a unrepairable SEECOL ground row with 4 undamaged reflectors I would love to hear from you.
e-mail: jotony@internode.on.net
I live in Adelaide but am interested in hearing from people interstate as well.
Whoever thought of putting glass reflectors on ground rows!
refurbishing groundrows
Sun, 15 Apr 2007, 08:13 pmYou almost certainly have Strand 's' battens, the secol is probably Strand Electric Company of London or similar.If you go to strandarchive.co.uk you will find details.Glass reflectors are more efficient than aluminium and as the battens usually stayed in one place it was fine, but the main reason for using glass was that 50 yrs ago aluminium was very expensive and only high purity aluminium has good reflectivity, so glass was a cheap and tried material.A 6ft 8 section batten cost 14 pounds 1 shilling and 6 pence (1954)