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Abacus Tubular Steel Lighting Columns

Article from Abacus's September 1964  brochure

More delights from the 1964 Abacus brochure, illustrating their then contemporary range of tubular steel columns and 'Sigma' photoelectric light control unit, combined with a whole host of wonderful lanterns from that period.

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Page 1: Lantern types. Left: Atlas Alpha-2 MCF lantern in Chesterfield. Middle: Atlas Amberline SLI/H lantern (later to become Alpha-5). Right: Atlas Alpha-3

Page 2. Lantern types. Left: Atlas Alpha-3. Middle: Atlas Gamma-4's. Right: Atlas Alpha-3's.

Page 3. Lantern types. Far left: Atlas Gamma-7? Middle left: Atlas Beta-7. Middle right: Eleco HW727 MCF lantern? Far Right: Atlas Beta-3

Page 4. Lantern types. Left: Atlas Gamma-5. Middle and top right: Atlas Beta-1.

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