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IN Welwyn Garden City, Herts, an entirely now building now houses the Welwyn Stores; a description of the building is given in the Electrical Review of October 13. The Welwyn Electricity Supply Co. built and equipped a new sub-station near the site to meet the required demand. The G.E.C. Co., Ltd., installed the whole of the lighting and fittings for 336 combined tungsten and Osira lamps. The outside illumination consists of four large neon signs. The shop fronts have artificial stone piers, marble risers and a painted wooden facia and cornice in which is set a line of fluorescent tubing running round three sides of the building. About 900 feet of ‘Clora’ coated tubing has been used for this purpose The store itself comprises ground floor and part of the first floor. Under an artificial daylight effect achieved by ‘T.O.T.’ units, the natural wax-polished oak counters, stock fittings and panelling show up well. During the daytime, the daylight entering the ground floor through ‘glass-crete’ roof-lights from the staircase blends with the artificial illumination, all strong contrasts being eliminated. Each lighting unit consists of one 80-watt ‘Osira’ fluorescent type discharge lamp and three 150-watt tungsten lamps enclosed in opal sphere pendants 18·in. in diameter. All the main selling floors have this type of lighting. The food hall is a separate section on the ground floor. There are 1,400 feet of fluorescent tubing, arranged round the ceiling in three parallel rows—one red tube and two blue—and the effect of this diffused brilliance is enhanced by the green and white chequered flooring, the tiled walls and counter fronts, and other modern fittings. Light signalling by pro-arranged combinations of four different colours is used throughout the store for attracting the attention of managers or other persons.
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Electric Lighting in a Modern Store. Nature 144, 704 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144704b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144704b0