Coughtrie Lighting in administration - end of an era?

Does anyone else install the Coughtrie lights? I've bought the Coughtrie corner lights for a long time and it will be very sad if they can't find a buyer! I don't think there are any equivalent quality outside lights on the market and there must be a huge market for the fittings. They've never been well distributed though and only a few electrical merchants have ever had them on the shelves.

You may have seen the newer fittings like this;

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the older version;
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Dave Starling
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Yes. Quality diecast aluminium, quality diffusers & switchgear. Basically how you would build a light that would last 20yrs. Plus, an IP rating whose claim is actually achieved!

The only shortcoming I found was a plug-in LNE terminal block whose screws are meant to be retained by ribs in the terminal guard tunnels. Screw head dimension tolerance was such that they could fall out if inverted - hilarious if you mounted the light upside down over say gravel (brass is non magnetic). For anyone that suffers same, the typical mains green PCB terminal block uses the same size screws albeit steel, back out a screw & it fits. Not their fault, just typical of the problem of sourcing components where someone's elses cost-cutting weakest link doesn't impact on your product :-)

JCC do some good lights. I say "do" when most are imported Italian & German. At least "good" compared to the nasty plastic crap. The downside is get used to prices 2-2.5x greater.

The corner lights you mention have an attractive "industrial yet art deco period" look, a time when electrical switchgear had time for someone's artistic flair having achieved the functionality (a la Victorian & Popular Mechanic 1905).

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