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Fluorescent Fitting. How Long Has This Been Going On?

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I was relamping some old high level 5 foot fluorescent fittings today. The Thorn Popular Pack type of old. They were fitted with Atlas tubes. So, I was wondering, what is the oldest working fluorescent fitting that you have come across with a heavy wound magnetic ballast and fluorescent starter unit?


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    In the workshop at my Uncles, in a little used corner, are a couple of 5' trough type fittings. These still have ATLAS 80W tubes that have bayonet end caps. One has a 4 pin starter & other other has a starter that is similar in shape to a pygmy lamp - it has a SBC base & contains a set of contacts much like a modern glow starter. Both of these fittings have huge iron chokes & still work.


    The workshop dates from WWII when the building was a Fire Station so these fittings may well be original. Another fitting is an early two-tone thorn fitting still with an ATLAS bi-pin tube. I believe this fitting dates from mid/late 1960s.


    There are also a couple of 40W filament lamps around marked "property of the War Dept". Unfortunately they no longer work.
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    In the workshop at my Uncles, in a little used corner, are a couple of 5' trough type fittings. These still have ATLAS 80W tubes that have bayonet end caps. One has a 4 pin starter & other other has a starter that is similar in shape to a pygmy lamp - it has a SBC base & contains a set of contacts much like a modern glow starter. Both of these fittings have huge iron chokes & still work.


    The workshop dates from WWII when the building was a Fire Station so these fittings may well be original. Another fitting is an early two-tone thorn fitting still with an ATLAS bi-pin tube. I believe this fitting dates from mid/late 1960s.


    There are also a couple of 40W filament lamps around marked "property of the War Dept". Unfortunately they no longer work.
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