I have some of these in plus white. I dont have the correct fitting, but do have a correct 40w gear tray with mag switchstart ballast. They are on eBay pretty cheap sometimes

I'm sure I could make a fitting easily enough. Kind of want this tube on display though. Remember seeing these years ago on crystal maze and always thought they looked great. Example here --> s8.postimg.cc/uzerv6rfp/utuebs.jpg

these bring back fond memories, our school canteen had these in the corridor where you use to queue up for dinner.

These are great tubes! I don't know why you never see them. Why did shops stick with quad 20/18w panels when they could bung in a couple of these things? Hardly see them in the UK but they are massive abroad which is ironic as the factory these are from was in London.

I wish I could stop time, and go back to our school in the mid 80, could have 'mysteriously', unbolted the fittings , they were Thorn's own surface mounts for this exact lamp

The amount of times i've wished I also had a time machine so I could have gone back and saved so many good fittings from the scrap. I remember when I was at at school and they were refurbishing it there was a large skip outside. I used to wait for the jobsworth staff to piss off and carry as much off home as I could out of it. Got loads of electronics out of it!