REVO

Today's the day ............................ to light up

The street lights around here are in the process of being updated.

They are really quite special - individually numbered and made in the 1930s by a company called REVO based in Tipton in the West Midlands.  The Company was probably founded around 1910 and although its origins are slightly unclear, it is thought that it probably started off as a company named Cable and Accessory founded by Frederick Reeves who went on to forge a partnership with Septimus Vaughan founder of VONO beds hence the name REVO was given to emphasis the link.

It was not until the 1930s that REVO became a household name, when electric street lighting was widely introduced and REVO lights, along with their competitors, were suspended around the UK, illuminating streets railways and factories. By the 1950s and 60s REVO was one of the main suppliers of street lighting around the UK.  Many of their lights are still actually in use today - this was in the days before planned obsolescence!

REVO engineers were famed for their creativity, often  developing styles of lighting individual to the towns they were designed for - and these are no exception ....................