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Revere Urban-Lite Got a couple of these at a antique market yesterday. The Revere Urban-Lite (aka Pea-Head) was similar to a Form 175 since they were both remote ballasted fixtures designed for 100-250w mercury lamps. They also accept standard mogul base incandescent lamps but they were designed more for mercury lamps. Since these have fairly roomy slipfitters, a small ballast like a 35-150w HPS choke might fit. I suppose these could be converted to HPS fairly easily. Revere fixtures are very rare here with none remaining in the wild. It's shown here cleaned up and wired up. The lamp is a GE Bonusline 175w /W that came with one of the fixtures. Keywords: American_Streetlights

Revere Urban-Lite

Got a couple of these at a antique market yesterday. The Revere Urban-Lite (aka Pea-Head) was similar to a Form 175 since they were both remote ballasted fixtures designed for 100-250w mercury lamps. They also accept standard mogul base incandescent lamps but they were designed more for mercury lamps. Since these have fairly roomy slipfitters, a small ballast like a 35-150w HPS choke might fit. I suppose these could be converted to HPS fairly easily.

Revere fixtures are very rare here with none remaining in the wild.

It's shown here cleaned up and wired up. The lamp is a GE Bonusline 175w /W that came with one of the fixtures.

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Album name:joe_347V / My Streetlight Collection
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:Revere Electric, Est late 50s-60s
Model Number:4A-528 Urban-Lite
Wattage:100-250w
Lamp Type:Mercury vapour
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Date added:Jul 08, 2014
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regennis   [Jul 08, 2014 at 01:43 AM]
What a find! They were all over our neighborhood until early 1968.
lite_lover   [Jul 08, 2014 at 02:02 AM]
Nice find Joe!
joe_347V   [Jul 08, 2014 at 02:52 AM]
Thanks!
streetlight98   [Jul 08, 2014 at 03:57 AM]
Wow you got two of these? Fantastic! They're oddball lights and defiently rare! Reveres don't exist here except for in a couple parking lots and they're small parking lots with only a few lights and the reveres are usually mixed in with other brands.
Form109   [Jul 08, 2014 at 04:11 AM]
now that's a nice fixture there. I never knew the actual name just their common refrence as "pea heads"
joe_347V   [Jul 08, 2014 at 11:38 AM]
I'll post a plan of the lamp later today since its a Bonusline /W. I quite like the colour too. To me it sorta looks like a bluish /DX lamp.

@Mike, Thanks and yeah I should clean up the other one too lol. Interestingly it has a different refractor. Before I got these, I thought they used a medium socket since they're so small. I wonder if Ontario had any other Reveres back in the day.

@Devonte, thanks yeah I found an ad calling them the Urban-Lite. I wonder who came up with the name Pea Head then. Laughing
streetlight98   [Jul 08, 2014 at 03:04 PM]
Ah interesting. Yeah they look like they coule use a medium base socket. I've only seen clear, /C, and /DX lamps before. /C looks yellowish, comparable to a "lite white" fluorescent from what I hear. A really cool color and the /C lamps often green out even more than the clear lamps!

I guess it sort of looks like a pea. I don't know where the term "cobrahead" came from. OV-25s, M-400s, etc look nothing like a cobra, sorry guys. Razz Laughing If the name does anything it tells non-collectors to back off or suffer the deadly attck of the cobrahead! Mwahahaha!!!
joe_347V   [Jul 09, 2014 at 06:45 AM]
Yeah, the socket bracket didn't have holes drilled for a medium based socket though. I've seen clear, /D, /DX, /N and now /W lamps in operation. I have a /C by it's dead so I don't know how they look like lol.

Yeah I guess it sorta does look like a pea, as for cobrahead, I believe the first gen (flatbottom) OV-25 was where the name came from. The ballast and slipfitter cover on those had a corrugated pattern that sorta resembled the scales on that flap of skin around a cobra's head.
Model25FanForever   [Jul 09, 2014 at 11:58 AM]
That looks nice!
I thought these were Forms 175. Too bad they aren't common anymore in parking lots Sad
Im thinking of going on a hunt to some restores here to see what lights and signals I can find
joe_347V   [Jul 09, 2014 at 04:45 PM]
Thanks! The Form 175 looks similar but it has a shorter slipfitter and a cone shaped glass.

As for Restore, I don't recall seeing any street lights recently but here's what they have in terms of HID.

Brampton - I think the 250w MH parking garage light is still there. Also some HPS tallpacks.
Mississauga - There's some 100w MH wallpacks
Vaughan - there might be a 150w HPS Cooper flood left
Barrie - had a bunch of 250w MH parking garage lights, a 70w HPS yardlight, and a 100w HPS wallpack

As for signals your best bet is either Kijiji or antique shops. Not sure if they're still there but there's a antique shop just north of Newmarket with some signals when I went there back in April. They had two Fortran 12-12-12s and a Eagle Mark IV 12-8-8. Both were incandescent but they didn't have visors.

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