Phosco P156
After the Phosco P152's successful restoration, my attention has now shifted towards this. Acquired a few months later, the P156 came from the Edinburgh area. Unfortunately it didn't survive the previous persons storage, having a shed collapse on top of it, writing the bowl off. It ended up remaining untouched for 4 years until a fellow collectors amazing haul of NOS bowls encouraged me to drag it out of hiding to look it over and fit the bowl to it. 

Unfortunately its missing both oddie keys, hinges, and the hinge pins too, its hoped these can be found. In the meantime I will be restoring the lantern as best I can. This'll involve polishing the gear cover, filling the photocell hole in, adding a porcelain terminal block, and a full respray inside with gloss white, and outside with Hammered Silver. Again it should be Hammered metallic Beige, but I can't find that anywhere.

Phosco P156

After the Phosco P152's successful restoration, my attention has now shifted towards this. Acquired a few months later, the P156 came from the Edinburgh area. Unfortunately it didn't survive the previous persons storage, having a shed collapse on top of it, writing the bowl off. It ended up remaining untouched for 4 years until a fellow collectors amazing haul of NOS bowls encouraged me to drag it out of hiding to look it over and fit the bowl to it.

Unfortunately its missing both oddie keys, hinges, and the hinge pins too, its hoped these can be found. In the meantime I will be restoring the lantern as best I can. This'll involve polishing the gear cover, filling the photocell hole in, adding a porcelain terminal block, and a full respray inside with gloss white, and outside with Hammered Silver. Again it should be Hammered metallic Beige, but I can't find that anywhere.

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lampy   [31 Jan, 2019 at 05:30 PM]
wish i could locate a full P157 lantern which is basically the side entry version of this lantern.
lampy   [31 Jan, 2019 at 05:31 PM]
if i were you, i would not re paint the inside or outside of this lantern, they never look right after being re painted, original is far more appealing, well to me anyways
lampy   [31 Jan, 2019 at 05:33 PM]
what gear has this got inside it? have you any photos of the gear? i now have a gear in head P157 but with no bowl ! mines got a blacK BLI transformer in it, not sure if its original or not though, be good to see what this has inside it please
Dave   [03 Feb, 2019 at 12:23 PM]
I'll get you a pic when I get to it next. I think mines got an old white ballast.
lampy   [03 Feb, 2019 at 08:39 PM]
what did you have to give claire for that bowl then as i know she had some a while back?
Dave   [03 Feb, 2019 at 09:56 PM]
It wasn't Claire I had this off, it was off another enthusiast. I'm still in requirement of parts for this before I can begin to restore it
lampy   [05 Feb, 2019 at 06:02 PM]
you mean the hinges? i have some but all on lanterns that are complete i'm sure of that, if i had a bost bowl you'd be welcome to the hinges. we sued to have loads of P152 top entry 35 watt soxs round here on stanton 7 swan neck concretes the last of which got took out 20 years ago now, i managed to save some at that time, we never had the 90 watt P157 though round here, well one road about 8 miles from here but they went in 1988
lampy   [05 Feb, 2019 at 06:04 PM]
did you just have the one P157/6 bowl as if you have another i can swap it with an intact P152 bowl which will have the hinges etc

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