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Years ago I found a booklet published by General Electric in 1927. Actually it was published by a GE division "National Lamp Works" via the Nela School of Lighting in Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Established in 1911, Nela Park (named for the National Electric Lamp Association) in Cleveland, Ohio, has through the present day served as both administrative headquarters and research laboratory for the development and sale of General Electric's (GE) lighting products. I did not find any mention of this particular booklet in the forums.

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Bill
Grand Rapids, MI

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

Really neat piece of literature!

Fantastic find. Thank you for taking the time to post.

What an amazing step back to the early days!

While I was doing some research on GE's National Lamp Works booklet, I came across a website depicting all of the pages of a 1939 gas station lighting catalog. It was published by Goodrich Electric Company and titled "Modern Lighting for Service Stations." Just in case you haven't seen it, this is the link:
https://archive.org/details/GoodrichElectricCoModernlightingforservicestations/mode/2up

The "Modern Lighting" catalog was published 12 years after the GE booklet I have (1939 versus 1937). Interesting to note that for the most part the "basic" lighting available for service stations had not changed all that much. However, the Goodrich Electric catalog has more information and better illustrations (41 pages long).

Bill
Grand Rapids, MI