Lampmaking Machinery

Presented here is a selection of brochures illustrating the type of machinery involved in lamp manufacture. By far the majority of the equipment involved in lampmaking was designed and built by the principal lighting companies themselves - this being essential in view of the fact that new lamp types often only became possible because of the parallel development of a new process requiring a type of machine that had never before existed. The principal lampmakers often sold basic variants of their machines to smaller companies that did not have such facilties, and there also existed a handful of companies specialised solely in the construction and sale of machines for producing the more standard lamp types and their components. Please click on the relevant image to download the document of interest. Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view all documents as PDF files.