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Lamps => Antique => Topic started by: Nevada Willis on January 25, 2017, 01:50:51 PM
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Hey gang.
Does anyone have any info on the Pittsburgh Transformer Company? I fell into an ancient bowl reflector lamp with a cast ribbed head. The reflector has a cobalt blue enamel top. A number cast on the body is "442." I'm thinking that it could be a PTC fixture.
Thanks!
(http://kbrhorse.net/strpics/ptc_442-01.jpg)
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It is a Pittsburgh Transformer Company fixture. It turns out that PTC had a very unique proprietary series street light system in the early 1920s where current regulation took place inside the various lamp fixtures.
Here's an information sheet I put together.
http://www.kbrhorse.net/streetlights/ptc.html (http://www.kbrhorse.net/streetlights/ptc.html)
(http://www.kbrhorse.net/strpics/ptc_cat02.jpg)