April 1978. These are my favourite SOX lamps!

Love the white caps on these! Shame all modern SOX are slop

Absolutely gorgeous lamps!!!! I love these with a passion my favourites without a doubt !!!! In going to get my ones out when I get home.

Got to be the best ever made?

Without any doubts at all!

I have a couple of them in my collection

Its really sad they flattend Shaw at Olham

I think the best were the Philips of the mid 1990s, GEC and Thorn's discharge tubes used to stain brown much more rapidly. In fact most lamps were the best up to about the mid 90s. The lamp industry went through a century of continual improvement and technological development up until that era, and then the Chinese started dumping cheap products on the market, and others had to start cutting costs (and a few corners on quality and performance) to be able to survive. And then LED came along and everyone's focus shifted to that, further accelerating the decline of traditional lighting. Sometimes I am sad that traditional lighting products might not actually die out because LED is really any better, but because in general their performance and quality seems to be going downhill so rapidly.

That would be the 17 year lamp I took out!

These were great lamps, as were the yellow etched Osram Supersox that these became later!