Other Manufacturers
Other well-known manufacturers include Revere, Line Materials/McGraw-Edison and Hubbell.

Streetlight fanatics have luminaires that they love to hate, and for me, those were the ones made by Revere.  While the Silverliners were still in production, Revere had the nerve to make ugly parodies of Westinghouse's beloved fixtures.  One of these looked like an OV25 Silverliner, but instead of the Westy's pleasant-looking diffuser, it had a bowl-shaped refractor that led me to call it the "anti-Silverliner."  Another Revere fixture looks like a mutilated version of the OV50.  I don't hate that fixture as much as the OV25 copycat, but it's still ugly.

Believe it or not, Line Materials produced remote-ballast fixtures called the Ovalites.  The Ovalites are quite a rare find because they always placed a distant third to the ones made by GE and Westinghouse.

The Unistyle cobraheads became Line Materials' most popular fixtures.  They are noted for their arched top and sloped front end.  The Unistyle 400 (250-400 watts) was made for wide city thoroughfares, and the smaller Unistyle 175 (100-250 watts) appeared on suburban residential streets.

Line Materials was bought out by McGraw-Edison in 1967, which continued to produce the Unistyles well into the 1970s.  The Unistyles would be replaced by the Unidoors, known for their boxy look.  Like the Unistyles before them, the Unidoors came in the same 175 and 400 varieties.  Because of the switch from mercury to sodium that was going on in the 1970s, most of the Unidoors are lit with HPS, while the majority of their Unistyle predecessors still have the mercuries inside.  Today, McGraw-Edison (like Crouse-Hinds) is a division of Cooper Lighting.

Hubbell Lighting produces two luminaires, the RL-series and RM-series.  The RL-series luminaire, in semicutoff form, bears a striking resemblance to the old American Electric Model 25 (although a full-cutoff version looks a little different from the semicutoff one).  The smaller RM-series fixture is completely rectangular, and it looks like it could've come from GE (M250 PowrDoor, 1980s version) or American Electric (Model 13).
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