Philips MA60 Lantern Installations

The Philips MA60 was the largest MA lantern and highest wattage of MA lantern. It ran 180W SOX, with remote and integral geared versions having been available. The Mk.1 integral geared versions were extremely long, at over 5ft! A large shoe was the integral geared version, with the remote geared version having had a smaller shoe or spigot.

Birmingham

Some remote-geared Mk.1 MA60s are located along Tollhouse Way. They are mixed in with Philips Lumistreets.

This close-up reveals the LED column is newer than the columns supporting MA60s. It is currently unknown when this replacement scheme will resume.

A close-up of the first column visible in the image.

Brownhills

Watling Street in Brownhills was lined with integral-geared Mk.1 MA60s into late 2025, when nearly all of them were removed. These massive fixtures were first pictured on a gloomy September day in 2024, running 180W SOX and 131W SOX-E lamps. The closest column pictured below is column E168.

Much further down the road, E128 was also photographed. Look closely and you can see two day-burners in the background.

The following MA60s were pictured on the same part of the road.

This example was just out of shot on the above image, and was actually slightly wonky on it's bracket.

Another example to be installed alongside the previous one was:

On the side of the road with the path, more MA60s were extant. This one was on a badly-corroded column.

Looking closer, we see that this was actually a remote-geared example of the MA60.

I photographed another MA60 (this time another geared example) on the pathway-side of the road.

An installation with a failed photocell was spotted along the road. By this point, the other day-burner on the opposite side of the road (pictured months before) had been repaired.

This MA60 was another remote-geared variant...

...But at least it was still working to some capacity! The same cannot be said for this one, which was knocked down in late 2024. The lantern lay on the grass verge for a while after the collision, but sometime before this visit, it was picked up and the column was cut down.

Another GO variant was photographed below.

This one varied from the others, in that it had installed upon it a minicell.

Column E103:

The MA60s continued down the A5.

Chester

What I originally thought was an MA50-GO was spotted just at the end of a slip road from the M53 on to Hoole Island Junction.

But closer inspection revealed it to be an MA60-OO for 180W SOX, with the spigot (rather than the shoe). Notice the lack of a gear towards the rear end of the lantern.

Stafford

As of 2025, there are still a number of MA60s located in Stafford. This is in stark contrast to other areas where their numbers are dwindling, or they are extinct entirely. It will not be very long until no more of these can be found on public British Roads. Here, the first installation to be photographed was this iconic MA60-GO (gear-in-head) atop column 9; a 10m steel column.