Updated 04-II-2012

Historic Lamp Catalogues

Presented here is a selection of historic lamp catalogues. Please click on the relevant link to download the document of interest. Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view all documents as PDF files. Catalogues of British origin are typically divided into the following ELMA Groups (the Electric Lamp Manufacturers' Assocoation):

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 Swan, Edison & Swan, Ediswan, and Royal Ediswan Companies
UK - 1883 UK - 1893 UK - 1896 UK - 1910 UK - 1913 UK - 1923
UK - 1948 UK - 1952
The General Electric Company of England (Osram-GEC)
UK - 1910 UK - 1932 UK - 1937 UK - 1951 UK - 1959 UK - 1975
Siemens Brothers, Siemens Electric Lamps & Supplies, Siemens-Ediswan, and Sieswan
UK - 1945
The British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH-Mazda) and Associated Electrical Industries (AEI-Mazda)
UK - 1929 UK - 1937 UK - 1947 UK - 1954 UK - 1955
Thorn Electrical & Musical Industries (Atlas, Thorn EMI)
UK - 1940 UK - 1969/70 UK - 1989/90
N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken
Holland - 1923 Belgium - 1941 UK - 1953 France - 1959 UK - 1965 Holland - 1984
Osram GmbH
Germany - c.1959 Germany - 1962
The French Thomson-Houston Company (FTH-Mazda), Thomson Electronics and Compagnie des Lampes
FR - 1965
The General Electric Company, U.S.A.
USA - 1937 USA - 1948 USA - 1960