Phosco P107 17"

Another lantern enters the collection, bringing into it another lantern from my childhood. The Phosco P107 with 17" canopy was always an uncommon type, however in Dudley they were a staple lantern everywhere down almost every side road. The 2000's to 2010's saw a countywide replacement scheme, as the council wiped out all MBF from their roads, replacing them with the likes of 2600's, Arcs, and later QSS and Estilo's. To date, I know of two examples that somehow escaped, and of those one is totally smashed, the other I'm not even sure is still around today.

The P107's were of a later design than this, having two knurled screws each side of the centralised photocell. All examples were clear cone with a glass refractor ring, of course my example on arrival wasn't any of that. I found out a spare clear cone, as well as a 3 pin BC lamp holder, and a collector helped me with a glass ring refractor ring and cradle. It was then that I could convert it from opal cone SOX to clear cone MBF, which to my eyes looks far more better.