SEVEN FOR 70
The Municipal Electricity Department will shed as much light on the Square with seven poles as it used to with 70.
The department erected the poles yesterday and will have the lights going next week. Temporal flood-lighting will remain in use until then.
A crane hoisted the 80ft standards into position at strategic points around the Square.
Electrical engineers say the filaments will give off a natural light compared with the harsher light of the sodium lamps. Each standard will contain three 1000 watt mercury and two 600 watt sodium tubes. The mercury is colour-corrected and will soften the garish sodium tinge.
The standards are steel cylinders welded together in 12 sections. They are bolted into a concrete base. The M.E.D.’s surveyors will plumb the towering standards using theodolites. Correcting the “leans’’ will simply involve adjusting the bolts at rhe base.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33434, 16 January 1974, Page 1
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