Hovis style
Rounded bread-loaf top profile. Collector nickname, not an official Royal Mail term.
- LB206 (GR crown and small cipher)
- LB207
- LB208
- LB209
- LB210
Lamp box subtype guide
This page is the enthusiast deep dive. For beginner identification, use the five top-level lamp styles in the main guide.
Lamp boxes are frequently fixed into walls as well as on poles. If the casting matches an LB subtype below, choose Lamp box on the map, not Wall box, even when the surround is masonry.
Waggon style
Elliptical 1935-family roof profile.
- LB211 (GvR 1935 Pattern)
- LB212 (1936 revised 1935 Pattern)
Bantam
Compact later lamp-box family.
- LB224 (Type N Bantam)
Tin Lizzie (1940 Pattern)
LB213 is the GVIR 1940-pattern entry. The EIIR 1940-pattern family spans LB214-LB225.
- LB213 (1940 Pattern, GVIR)
- LB214 (1952)
- LB215 (Allied Iron Founders)
- LB216 (Carron Company)
- LB216 (Carron Company Stirlingshire)
- LB217 (Carron Company Stirlingshire 1977 pattern)
- LB218 (Carron Stirlingshire)
- LB219 (Lion Foundry Kirkintilloch)
- LB220 (Carronade)
- LB221 (Machan Scotland)
- LB222 (Abbott Engineering)
- LB223 (Machan Scotland, Royal Mail)
- LB224 (Type N Bantam)
- LB225 (Elizabeth II lamp)
New style
Modern stainless steel family in the current taxonomy.
- LB3426 (Stainless steel, RM Manufacturing)