Strand
This collection of documents, photographs and journals aims to provide a full history of the work of the former Strand Electric / Rank Strand / Strand Lighting, which is now part of Philips Lighting group, rebranded in 2019 as Signify.
Please let us know if you have additional information or materials to add to the archive.
More material is being located and added to the collection weekly.
Chronology of Strand Electric / Rank Strand / Strand Lighting (produced from Marketing material, so may not be 100% accurate - please let us know of inaccuracies!)
Publications and News
Copies of Tabs, Lights, Strandlight and Strand News are available to view in the Publications section.
Published books are available to view in the Backstage Heritage Collection Library.
See also Karl Hessenbruch entry for information and brochures from this German partnership with Strand Electric.
In the 1930s/40s, a sub-company 'Stransign' was set up to handle the electric sign / neon part of the business. We have a Stransign catalogue in the collection below, dated around 1940.
Archive Contents:
- All Strand Products on Archive
- Arc Lights
- Architectural Control & Dimming
- Architectural Luminaires
- Colour Changers
- Colour Filters
- Company History
- Connectors
- Control - Direct
- Control - Manual
- Control - Memory
- Control Software
- Dimming and Multiplex
- Drafting Tools
- Effects
- Factsheets and Articles of Interest
- Film/TV Lighting
- Followspots
- Installation
- LX Rigging and Stands
- Lamps
- Lanterns (Named)
- Lanterns (Patt. Numbered)
- Moving Lights
- Projection
- Scenic Products
- Sound - Amplifiers
- Sound - Playback
- Sound - Sources
- Stage Mangement, Props, Model Theatre
Exhibits in the Backstage Heritage Collection
Price Lists and Catalogues
See individual product pages for data sheets, instructions etc.
Catalogue & Journal Entries in the Backstage Heritage Collection
People
- Bob Anderson
- Leonard George Applebee (L.G.) (1890 - September 1964)
- Mark Ayton
- David Baker
- B E Bear
- Frederick Bentham (23 October 1911 - May 10th 2001)
- David Bertenshaw
- Frederick George Brown (? - 2014)
- Mike Cawte
- Andy Collier
- Percy Corry (15 June 1894 - 1988)
- Hugh Montagu Cotterill
- David Cunningham
- David Cusworth
- John Davies
- Joe Davis (1912 - July 1984)
- Basil Dean (1888-1978)
- Michael Dyer
- Arthur Earnshaw (1873 - ?1940)
- Stanley Earnshaw ( - November 1976)
- Richard Farthing
- Richard Harris
- Herbert Hughes
- George Izenour (July 24 1912 - ?)
- Edward F. Kook (?1903 - September 29th 1990)
- Brian Legge ( - 9 January 2020)
- Joseph Levy
- Edwin Lockwood
- Alan Luxford
- John Morgan McLeod (aka Mac) (1910 - September 1961)
- Moss Mansell ( - June 1957)
- Martin Moore
- Tommy Morgan
- Philip Rose
- Derrick Ross
- Wally Russell (1934-1992)
- Philip Sheridan (1877 - 1936)
- John David H. Sheridan (16 March 1908 - 20 May 1987)
- George Templeton
- Joe Thornley
- Anne Valentino
- Paul Weston (1920 - 2004)
- James Templeton Wood (Woody) (24 Sept 1906 - 4 May 1985)
- Bob Woolnough
- Jim Woolnough
- John Wright
Documents
Factsheet 02: The Use of Earth Leakage Circuit Breakers with Lighting Controls (July 1991)
[159kb PDF]
From Strand Archive
Factsheet 04: Equipment Protection (November 1991)
Use of Fuses and Circuit Breakers
[109kb PDF]
From Strand Archive
Factsheet 05: Guide to Installation and Dimming of Low Voltage Lighting (April 1992)
[298kb PDF]
From Strand Archive
In Memoriam - Fred Bentham (June 2001)
History of Strand and obituary of Fred Bentham by Richard Pilbrow
[External Website]
From Strand Archive
