Updated 17-VII-2024

Historic Lamp Catalogues

Presented here is a selection of historic lamp catalogues. Please click on the relevant image to download the document of interest. Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view all documents as PDF files. Certain documents are not in the author's posession, and digital copies have been kindly provided by other individuals. These are denoted by a numerical reference after the document title, and summarised in the list below:
1 Alan Masters
2 Michael Glück
3 Andrew Pullen
4 Olav Kettner
5 Neil Palmer
6 Leonardo Rugi
Edison, Thomson-Houston, National, and The General Electric Company, U.S.A.
1890 - USA 1915 - USA 1916 - USA 1936 - USA 1937 - USA 1948 - USA
1953 - USA1 1954 - USA1 1956 - USA 1960 - USA 1969 - USA 1972 - USA
1973 - USA 1975 - USA1 1977 - USA1 1979 - USA1 1980 - USA1 1982 - USA1
1984 - USA1 1985 - USA1 1986 - USA 1987 - USA1 1988 - USA 1989 - USA
1990 - USA 1991 - USA 1993 - USA 1996 - USA 1999 - USA 2006 - USA
2008 - USA 2016 - EU 2017 - EU

The Swan, Edison & Swan, Ediswan, and Royal Ediswan Companies
1883 - UK 1883 - UK 1893 - UK 1896 - UK 1899 - UK 1910 - UK
1910 - UK 1921 - UK 1924 - UK 1930 - UK 1934 - UK 4 1948 - UK
1952 - UK
The British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH-Mazda) and Associated Electrical Industries (AEI-Mazda)
1929 - UK 1932 - UK 1938 - UK 1939 - UK 1941 - UK 1947 - UK
1950 - UK 1952 - UK 1954 - UK 1954 - Australia 1955 - UK 1957 - UK
1959 - UK 1962 - UK 1962 - UK 1963 - UK 1964 - UK
The Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Met-Vick, Metrovick, Cosmos, and Julius Pintsch Lamps
1922 - UK 1928 - UK 1938 - UK4 1947 - UK 1954 - UK
English Electric, Siemens Brothers, Siemens Electric Lamps & Supplies, Siemens-Ediswan, and Sieswan
1912 - UK 1953 - UK 1955 - UK c.1958 - UK c.1960 - UK
Ensign Lamps, E.K. Cole, EKCO, Ekco-Ensign Electric
1941 - UK 1950 - UK 1951 - UK 1956 - UK 1958 - UK 1966 - UK
Omega Lamps & Lighting
1962 - UK
Thorn Electrical & Musical Industries (Atlas, Thorn EMI, Thorn Lighting, GE-Thorn)
1940 - UK 1949 - UK 1968 - UK 1969/70 - UK 1970/71 - UK 1971/72 - UK
1972/73 - UK 1973/74 - UK 1974/75 - UK 1975/76 - UK 1977 - UK 1978 - UK
1979 - UK 1980 - UK 1983 - UK 1984/85 - UK 1987/88 - UK 1989/90 - UK
1991 - UK 1991 - UK 1992 - UK
Crompton, Nox
c.1920s - UK 1986 - UK 1994 - Australia5

Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston (CFTH), Compagnie des Lampes & absorbed companies
1909 - France 1922 - France 1951 - France4 1954 - France 1955 - France 1961 - France
1965 - France 1982 - France

N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken, Signify and Lumileds
1923 - UK 1927 - Holland 1933 - Germany 1934 - UK 1936 - France 1937 - France
1940 - Germany 1941 - Belgium 1952 - UK 1953 - UK 1955 - Global ~1955 - Australia
1957 - UK 1959 - France 1962-63 - UK ~1964 - Australia 1964 - UK 1965 - UK
1965 - Global 1966 - UK 1969 - UK 1970 - Global 1972 - Holland 1979 - UK
1980 - UK 1982 - UK 1984 - Holland 1985 - UK 1985 - USA 1986 - UK
1986 - USA 1987 - USA 1988 - UK 1988 - USA 1989 - UK 1991 - USA
2004 - USA 2009 - UK 2010 - UK 2010 - Mexico 2011 - USA c.2012 Cent.America
2013 - UK 2013 - USA 2014 - Australia 2015 - Mexico 2015 - US 2015 - Israel
2016 - USA 2017 - Mexico 2018 - Mexico 2019 - Mexico

The General Electric Company of England (Osram-GEC)
1893 - UK 1910 - UK 1932 - UK 1937 - UK 1937 - UK 1938 - UK
1938 - UK 1951 - UK 1952 - Australia 1954 - UK 1956 - UK 1958 - Australia
1959 - UK 1960 - UK 1962 - Australia 1966 - Australia3 1969 - Australia 1975 - UK
1978 - Australia 1980 - UK 1985 - UK c.1987 - Australia 1988 - UK 1997 - Australia
Bergmann, Siemens & Halske, Siemens-Schuckert, AEG, Auergesellschaft, Wotan, Osram and Ledvance
1922 - Germany 1925 - Germany c.1955 - Germany 1958 - Germany 1960 - Germany 1960 - Germany
1962 - Germany 1965 - Germany 1968 - Germany 1968 - Germany 1970 - Germany 1979 - Germany
1984 - Germany 1985 - Germany 1986 - USA 1988 - UK 1990 - USA 1992 - USA
1993 - Italy 6 2010 - UK 2014 Mexico 2015 Mexico 2016 Mexico 2017 Mexico

Sylvania, Hygrade, Zenith, ITT, Claude, Visseaux, Paz-et-Silva, Havells, Ya-Ming / Feilo / Inesa
c.1925-31 - USA 1936 - USA 1945 - USA 1947 - USA 1964 - France 1964 - Germany2
1966 - France 1973 - USA1 1974 - USA1 1976 - USA1 1977 - USA1 1978 - USA1
1978 - USA1 1980 - USA1 1980 - USA1 1982 - USA1 1984 - USA1 1986 - USA1
1986 - UK 1988 - USA1 1988 - France 1988 - UK 1992 - USA1 2003 - Europe
2004 - Europe 2013 - Europe 2013 - Europe 2016 - Europe 2016 - China

Westinghouse, Sawyer-Man
1904 - USA 1910 - UK 1926 - USA 1935 - USA1 1938 - USA1 1975 - USA1
1978 Feb - USA1 1978 Oct - USA1 1979 - USA1 1980 - USA1 1983 - USA1

Iwasaki Electric Co., EYE Lighting
1988 - Japan 2008 - Japan

Narva, Rundfunktechnik (R-F-T), Berlinerglühlampenwerk (BGW) and other predecessors
195x - East Germany 1973 - East Germany4 1974 - East Germany 1975 - East Germany4 1982 - East Germany4 1990 - East Germany4
1992 - Germany4 2006 - Germany

Tungsram, Egyesült Izzólámpa és Villamossági Rt., Orion, Cyrkon, Watt, Kremenezky & predecessors
1920 - Austria 1934 - Belgium 1939 - France 1955 - Germany 1968 - Austria GLS 1988 - UK
HID 1988 - UK Specials 1988 - UK GLS 1989 - UK HID 1989 - UK 1990 - Europe 1991 - Germany
1998 - International 2006 - Europe 2019 - Europe 2020 - Europe 2022 - Europe

Tesla
1969-Czechoslovakia4 1983 - Germany4 c.1993 - Slovakia 1993 - Czechia c.1996 - Czechia c.1998 - Czechia

Polam
1987 - Poland4 198x - Poland 1996 - Poland

Steaua / Selum
c.1998 - Romania