Original Counterpoise Desk Lamp - England, Circa 1950/55 - Restored

Original Counterpoise desk lamp
England,
c.1950/55
Fully restored
Polished aluminum and rechromed parts
Rewired and grounded

The Counterpoise lamp is a balanced arm lamp designed in the late 1940s by British engineer and businessman Sidney Adolph Horstman (7 July 1881 - 11 July 1962).

In 1904 Horstmann and his brothers founded Horstmann Gear to produce a variable speed gearbox he had invented for cars and motorcycles. The company later became a general engineering company and specialized in gas street lighting controls, time switches, gauges and more recently central heating controls.
In 1913 Horstmann founded an automobile company, Horstmann Cars, which was later renamed Horstman Cars. Car production ceased in 1929, by which time 1,500 or 3,000 cars had been made.
After World War II, Horstmann formed a new electrical engineering company with GCT Hadrill, named Hadrill and Horstmann Ltd. They were best known for the counterbalanced lamps they produced, which are now collectibles.
The company was acquired in 1955 by Simms Group, which also acquired Horstman Ltd. Hadrill and Horstmann Ltd. applied for patent, number 617,550 or a design using the mechanism on May 24, 1950 and manufactured the lamp in their own company's workshops in London and Godalming, Surrey.

We restore these lamps in our own workshops in London and Germany to a very high standard.
All lights are rewired with a new old fashioned textile cable.
For safety reasons, we only use brand new bulb holders with an "Earth" screw.
We only use spare parts from old, unusable lamps.

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