G.E.C Lamps ‘Ajax’ Arts and Crafts Lamps

England c.1905.
 
These refined early task lamps utilize a unique tri-foil (three-legged) base section or a weighted circular base, allowing the single or twin arms to bend and articulate via adjustable key joints.
Almost  sci- fi/ in its structure or arachnomorphic in design.
 
 
Provenance see catalogue photo 1905 AJAX F.5631
 
X2 available.
 
Key Design Features:
 
*Multi-Utility Function: A distinctive feature of this model is its versatility; it was designed to be used both as a freestanding table lamp or mounted to a wall. One of each of the lamps three angular legs includes an original screw hole to facilitate wall mounting.
*Adjustable Mechanism: The lamps feature a jointed stem that can be articulated to direct light as needed.
*Tri-Form Base: It sits on three angular legs that terminate in small, flat feet.
*Re-wired with PAT and is in good working order.
 
Width – 8 inches , 21 cm Depth – 8 inches , 21 cm Height – 17 inches , 43 cm
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.
 
It was founded in London in 1886 as an electrical goods wholesaler by a German-Jewish immigrant, G. Binswanger and Company, which quickly adopted a then-unorthodox business model of supplying electrical components over the counter. In 1889, the business was incorporated as the General Electric Company Ltd and became a public limited company 11 years later.

1887 the company published the first electrical catalogue of its kind. The following year, the company acquired its first factory in Salford, where electric bells, telephones, ceiling roses and switches were manufactured.

1889 the company was expanding rapidly, opening new branches and factories and trading in ‘everything electrical’, a phrase that was to become synonymous with GEC.

During the 1890s and 1900s, the company heavily invested into electric lighting, a sector that proved to be immensely profitable in the long term, the company was to lead the way in lamp design, and the burgeoning demand for electric lighting.

1902, its first purpose-built factory, the Witton Engineering Works, was opened near Birmingham.
The company expanded both at home and overseas, with the establishment of agencies in Europe, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and India. It also did substantial trade with South America.