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Lamps => Antique => Topic started by: Nevada Willis on January 25, 2017, 01:50:51 PM

Title: Pittsburgh Transformer Company
Post by: Nevada Willis on January 25, 2017, 01:50:51 PM

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)

Title: Re: Pittsburgh Transformer Company
Post by: Nevada Willis on January 28, 2017, 12:31:04 PM

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)