Last Update: 20-05-2007
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PFI article
Article from Herald and Post, Thursday, May 17th 2007
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Overview
Northamptonshire has various components around the county, in the main are ELECO, GEC, PHILIPS, URBIS and THORN BETA. Prior to these lanterns were REVO, STANTON and STAVELY COLUMNS and CU PHOSCO. I have managed to compile a photographic collection, including archive footage from local publications and put them together on this site.
1982 was a big year for the County Council, when the county's streetlighting was given a major overhaul. The streets and major roads were upgraded and converted in the main towns and districts street lighting, replacing the old GEC florescent's to ELECO, CU PHOSCO'S to THORN BETA 5 as well as PHILIPS MI50 supported by a metal swan bracket. Some rural areas were left out of the programme as this was not pheasable. You will witness this in some of the footage.
The County Council have an objective to re-use street lighting as and whenever possible, where lighting on main roads have been upgraded. This project is supposed to be the first of it's kind in the country.
PHILIPS MA90's/SGS's and WRTL Industria are slowly replacing the latter and engineers are currently replacing the Stewarts and Lloyds and concrete CU columns in favour of CORUS steel columns, 8M, 12M, and HOCKEY STICK, manufactured locally in Corby (Formally Stewarts and Lloyds and British Steel before their merger with Corus in 1999).
The Highway's Agency have now taken responsibility of the street lighting on the A45 dual carriageway, and along the stretch of the A14. The latter for maintanance was either ABB or ATKINS, who continue to hold the contract for town and district lighting maintenance countywide.
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