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  Wheeler "Sink Bowl"
Street Light

Wheeler Reflector Co. (also known as Wheeler-Boston) was a Massachusetts based company that produced a variety of street light designs until they went out of business in the late 1970s. Wheeler produced streetlights with glassware optics, however they were most noted for their open reflector designs - radial waves, crescent moons and sink bowls, in both incandescent and mercury vapor configurations. The open reflectors allowed for various lighting patterns to be configured, depending on the reflectors, while helping preserve "dark skies."

The "classic" Wheeler head was an "beehive" design. For single units, a photo control was clamped onto the bracket arm or pole. Some heads, such as this one, were fitted with Fisher-Pierce tube-type photo controls. When solid state photo controls became standard, Fisher-Pierce produced an adapter crown that accommodated a (now conventional) twist-lock photocontrol as seen with this unit.

This luminaire also originally came with a crescent moon reflector however I needed the light distribution provided by a sink bowl, so it went back into service in that configuration.

Profile view with original crescent moon reflector.
Fisher-Pierce mount for tube type PC.
Onion shaped head with Wheeler-Boston logo.
Adapter crown for twist-lock type PC.

In service as a dusk to dawn light.
Classic radial wave configuration. (Wheeler painted tops of reflectors gray.)
Area lighting with radial wave reflectors

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