GEC SM70

Released in the 80's, these unusual SON bulkheads never really found popularity. I believe they made these with opal or prismatic bowl options. Finding one installed today is hard enough, an NOS one, even harder still.

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AngryHorse

[14 Oct, 2015 at 10:06 PM]

I`ve only ever seen these used widespread on farms around here.

Andy

[14 Oct, 2015 at 10:12 PM]

Nice bulkhead. What lamp did this come with as I recently uploaded a picture of a 70w GEC Solarcolour lamp and wondered if that might have been the type that these were originally supplied with.

Dave

[17 Oct, 2015 at 12:32 AM]

Yeah these are the Solarcolour bulkheads. Unfortunately this didn't come with one of those, it came with a Osram SON-I from around 1984.

Slyspark

[18 Nov, 2023 at 12:15 AM]

A multi-storey carpark near me had these back in the 80's and early 90's. They replaced the original fluorescents and were then themselves replaced with fluorescents, then replaced with halide and then more recently replaced once more with LED. There are some good shots of them in an episode of 'One Foot in the Grave' where Victor Meldrew is in the very same carpark I mentioned above. Quite a few shots show them in situ. I think he had someone on the roof rack of his car, whom he'd earlier knocked off a ladder, if I remember correctly. Spose that would have been early 90's

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