Indoor electrical light

The featured lamp was used indoors on ships. It may have provided lighting for the sailors' cabin and most likely was a spot lighting over a single berth. Although its function was similar to that of a spotlight in public transport, such as the lights above the seats in buses or aeroplanes, or the lights by the berths in sleeping carriages, it could have been mounted on the wall of the room like a wall lamp, and thanks to a movable shade it was possible to control the light beam. It was manufactured by Famor, a company established in Bydgoszcz in 1952 as the Gdańsk Machine Factory. The plant had been producing luminaires, searchlights, beacons, and ship projectors since 1954 and eventually became an electrical engineering company in 1956. In 1961, the company also started production of navigation and signalling equipment, starters, switchgear and telegraphs, and, in 1975, also of hospital appliances and remote control systems for ship engines. The company exported its products to 16 countries, including the socialist bloc countries, Canada, as well as West Germany, France, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Portugal. The plant was then privatised in 1994. After the year 2000, the factory focused its production on hospital and rail transport gear in addition to shipbuilding and navigation equipment. The bayonet fitting mounted in the lamp was manufactured by Czechowickie Zakłady Wytwórcze Sprzętu Instalacyjnego (now under the name of Kontakt-Simon S.A.), and the OSRAM bulb embedded in it dates back to the period of the German Federal Republic. Leszek Kocela