By Benjamin Lighting Co
Located in Gloucester, GB
Factory lights with convex glass diffusers by Benjamin
- Price is per light
- Vitreous grey enamel with white enamel reflectors
- Convex glass diffusers
- Takes B22 fitting bulbs
- Comes with 100cm of cable, chain and ceiling hook
- English, 1950s
- Measures: 38cm wide x 43cm tall
Benjamin
The Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Company was founded Reuben Benjamin in Chicago, Illinois, filing its first patent in 1898. The company opened a base in England, as the Benjamin Electric Ltd, in 1908, in Rosebury Avenue, Islington. Bearing in mind that Thomas Alva Edison had only demonstrated the first working lightbulb 29 years previously, it’s fair to suggest that they were at the vanguard of industrial lighting. Benjamin Electric decamped from London, N1, a decade later, when demand outgrew their facilities, to, of all places, London N17: Tottenham, at Brantwood Road, not a vast leap from White Hart Lane...
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1950s English Industrial Vintage Benjamin Lighting Co