The GEC Z5640 is a post-top lantern made to run on a mercury vapour lamp. This GEC Z5640 is in Stanwell, Surrey. These ones have a glass refractor ring. This one is very close to the other …

GEC Z5640 Lantern acquired in September 2021. This lantern was removed from High Street, Bolsover, owing to the lamp having failed, and there being no replacements left in stock that would allow it to continue in service.

Road width up to 30 ft. (9.5m). This lantern is also very useful for decorative garden, promenade and balustrade lighting, new housing estates, space lighting in front of offices, blocks of flats, halls etc. LAMPS Z5640 & Z5643 for use with 60-200 watt Osram tungsten filament lamp, B.C. cap.

Fully restored Z5640 post top lantern with 80w Mercury lamp.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/StreetLightOnlineThis video shows the activation and warm-up of the elliptical 70 Watt High Pressure Sodium (SON-E) lamp hous...

GEC Z5640 This battered post top lantern has certainly seen a long life, and is now safely retired into my collection. Rescued by P., the lantern probably stood somewhere near Surrey. Amazingly, given the dents and scratches on the canopy, the bowl and dish of this lantern remained complete and uncracked. A 'spare' SOX bulb can also been seen ...

Castle Square, Chester Attached to some of the buildings that surround the Square, including Chester Crown Court (formerly, the Shire Hall) and the Cheshire Military Museum, are a series of GEC Z5640, one Z5670 (not pictured here), and one CU …

Introduced in 1938 for the horizontal burning of Osira High Pressure Mercury Vapour Lamps. Made from light alloys and totally enclosed. Side mounted with the bracket gripped by …

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This lovely old GEC Z5640 post top lantern dates from the early 1960's and is pictured in Nottinghamshire in 2006. Aside of the smaller 'hat', this lantern is identical to the post top lantern.