Interesting.

Have you seen the new S-Line yet?, it’s Holophane’s new addition, but whereas the V-Max is more stylish in design, the S-Lines optics are far better, directing 100% of its light to the road surface better than the V-Max.

Found yourself a VMAX? Or was this the time you were over at mine when you saw that VMAX? I saw a S-Line the other week. Seems very similar to a Factor small

Just realised there are several types of optics on these having looked at the brochure...so that might account for the difference to the one I had a look at yours, Mr. Streetlight. Was lucky enough to get hold of a 105W one a couple of days back following an RTC over Buckingham way. Spoke to the crew on site and they confirmed that the whole lot was being replaced as a matter of course due to the force of the impact and charged to the insurer of the car involved. Must have been quite a smack given it had launched the thing off the column, landing and embedding itself in the embankment well over a hundred yards away from the column, the mounting spigot is slightly distorted too which must have taken some force. They were happy for me to take it...I wasn't about to say no, not as though these are fittings you exactly find laying around in the skips yet. Having had a proper look at it, still more impressed by it. They are pleasingly well put together, and the quality of light is really decent...Will make a fantastic upgrade for my workbench floodlight.

That was very decent of them. I've come across four of these types of VMAX laying near the column which got hit!

I've seen a car hit a steel lamp post with a long outreach arm. The pole twisted round at a great rate of knots as it came down and the centrifugal force ripped the lantern (WRTL Arc) off the arm and launched it into low earth orbit! Lol not quite bit it fired it quite far into the next field where it split in half when it hit the gorund.

FSB, that's pretty much what had happened here. This was on quite a long arm and the column went backwards, pretty much 90 degrees to the road. Took me a good few seconds to figure out where it had come from given how far away the thing had landed! Lucky nobody was in the way as the lantern must have been travelling at an appreciable portion of the speed of sound judging from how far it was embedded in the ground.