Updated 25-VI-2009

Historic Lamp Catalogues

Presented here are extracts from a selection of historic catalogues, primarily of British origin. By clicking on the relevant front cover below, the pages relating to Group IX lamps (Electric Discharge Style) can be viewed as PDF files, for which you will need the Adobe Acrobat free viewer software. Should your interest concern light sources belonging to other groups or different catalogues not listed here, please send an e-mail message with your request by following the link here. Catalogues are typically divided into the following ELMA Groups:

Group I - General Purpose Incandescent & Projection
Group II - Vehicle Bulbs
Group III - Flashlamp Bulbs
Group IV - Cycle Dynamo Bulbs
Group V - Miners' lamps
Group VI - Decoration lights
Group VII - Telephone Switchboard, Post Office & Telewriter types
Group VIII - Military Lamps
Group IX - Electric Discharge and Fluorescent
Group X - Radio Panel Indicators
The General Electric Company of England
UK - 1932 UK - 1937 UK - 1951 UK - 1959 UK - 1975
The British Thomson-Houston Company
UK - 1929 UK - 1937 UK - 1947 UK - 1954 UK - 1945
The Swan United Electric Light Company / Royal Ediswan
UK - 1883
N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken
UK - 1965
The General Electric Company, U.S.A.
USA - 1937 USA - 1948 USA - 1960