Photo revealing repairman relamping a 700W or 1000W mercury vapor lamp within a huge Westinghouse luminaire. FYI...Bucket trucks came about for utility use in the early 1950s. Platform vehicles like this one (as well as "ladder trucks") generally were phased out in the 1960s/1970s in favor of bucket trucks.

Interested in street lights of years-gone-by? Please check out my website at:

http://www.vintagestreetlights.com and... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vintage_streetlights/

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