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From Flickr: “Revo Electric, Tipton – electric discharge street lighting equipment, 1937 – mercury vapour lighting” by mikeyashworth

A page from a rather fine 1937 Revo street lighting catalogue showing a combination of the company’s columns, brackets, lantern and control equipment – and indeed this sort of combination was a common sight on UK streets for decades from the 1930s onwards. The mirrored reflector lantern seen here (almost Read More →

From Flickr: “Revo Electric of Tipton – electric cooking apparatus – Restaurant fish fryer, c1930” by mikeyashworth

A page from a c1930 Revo Electric catalogue of commercial electrical cooking equipment showing a fish fryer – almost part of a range. Revo are better known as manufacturers of street lighting but it is worth recalling they also made many domestic and commerical appliances from the 1920s through to Read More →

From Flickr: “Revo Electric of Tipton – electric cooking apparatus catalogue cover, c1930” by mikeyashworth

A less common catalogue for the old Revo Electrical Company, based at Tividale in Tipton, Staffordshire and who in the mid-20th century were a well-known UK manfacturer of domestic and commerical electrical appliances, as well as street lighting equipment. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/rDzY1t

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