AEI Amber 140w SO Lantern. Dating from the early 1960's, the AEI Amber was originally designed for use with 140w  SO/H land SOI lamps. The lantern has an aluminium canopy and a plastic bowl with bonded refractor panels. In terms of its size, it's quite a big lantern, even in comparison to other contemporary lanterns of the period. The lantern was available in side-entry or top-entry configuration, with or without internally mounted control-gear.

This is a big lantern, as the mobile phone demonstrates. The lantern is a little dirty from storage, but should clean up OK.

Front view of the AEI Amber; the spring-clips that hold the bowl in to place are clearly visible in this view. A mini-photocell has been fitted to the canopy at sometime in the past and this will eventually be removed, and the hole filled to return the fitting to its original state.

The lantern's bowl is a Vac-formed replica, but will be fine unless an original bowl in good condition can be found to replace it.

With the lantern opened; there seems very little to the sparce interior, but had this been the geared version the large AEI leak transformer and capacitor would have occupied quite a bit of the empty space (see picture below as a comparison).

This damaged AEI Amber for 140w SO lamps reveals the control-gear layout of the geared version.