Vintage 1970s anglepoise 90 desk lamp, fully working, pat test bulb etc original ! This is an original not reproduction or copy ( has stamp on base for anglepoise makers mark and serial number etc. Don't get caught out by the numerous lamps proclaiming to be anglepoise ( they are inferior copies).
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Some age related wear, as you would expect and want displayed with other items illustration only
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Vintage 90 model anglepoise lamp Herbert Terry white and enamel lamp shade colour. Vintage angle poise 90 model Herbert Terry large, metal desk lamp. We believe this to be mid century. It is very heavy and a well made item. It was probably used as industrial/factory because of the quality of lamp. It has an unusual round base (normally square) and on / off switch on lamp itself with enamel light shade. Bulb included.
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Size: 87 cm tall fully extended 16 cm diameter base.
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We cannot guarantee electrical items and therefore they must be PAT tested by the buyer.
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Some age related wear. It has got a fantastic look -
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George Carwardine (1887–1947) was a car designer and a freelance design consultant specialising in vehicle suspension systems.[1] While developing new concepts for vehicle suspensions, he created a mechanism which he recognised had applications in other fields. He particularly saw its benefits for a task lamp. Despite many claims to the contrary, his concept had nothing whatsoever to do with mimicking the actions of the human arm.[2] The joints and spring tension allow the lamp to be moved into a wide range of positions which it will maintain without being clamped.[3][4]
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Carwardine applied to be a patent, number 404,615,[5] for a design using the mechanism on 4 July 1932, and manufactured the lamp himself in the workshops of his own company, Cardine Accessories, in Bath.[6] He soon found the interest and demand so great that he needed a major expansion or partner and, on 22 February 1934, entered into a licensing agreement with Herbert Terry and Sons in Redditch.[7][8] Terry's manufactured and marketed the lamp, while Carwardine continued to develop the concept, producing a number of other versions and applications (for example, for supporting microphones). The original four-spring design was made for working environments, such as workshops and doctors' and dentists' surgeries, but he also designed a three-spring version for use in the home, patented on 10 February 1934. (patent number 433,617).[9]
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The 1227 Anglepoise was released in 1935. It was primarily manufactured for the home and proved to be extremely popular.[10] The 1227 was hugely promoted by the Terry Spring Company and when England declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 the company ran an advert on the same day describing it as the "ideal blackout lamp".[11]
 
Although the Second World War had a detrimental effect on standard Anglepoise production, the Terry Spring Company was producing Anglepoise lamps for the navigator's station in bombers. According to the Anglepoise website, these were so well produced that when a crashed Vickers Wellington bomber was salvaged from Loch Ness in Scotland in 1985, the lamp still worked after being given a new battery – despite being submerged for around four decades.[12]
 
 
Close-up of the springs on an Anglepoise 90 lamp
A key feature of the Anglepoise design and patent is the placement of all springs (either three or four) near the base.[13] The design was extensively copied by other companies, usually in simplified form, and is still in use. Some derivatives use a heavy balance weight instead of the springs. The most common version replaces the arm linkages with two independent parallelogram linkages, with a pair of light tension springs on each half of the arm.
 
The arm has been employed in other devices where it is necessary to hold an object stationary at a convenient point in space, notably the copy holder for typists and in some applications, the computer display screen.
 
The lamps have been made from a variety of materials over the years, evolving from the early full steel prototypes into later models made from brass and aluminium.[14]
 
Although the lamp is still marketed as an iconic British design, production for all lamps, except the 1227 Giant model, has been moved to China.[15]