There are some lanterns that have been produced but sold under different brand names, rebadged under licence. It was touched upon in
this thread, and I thought we could talk about it more in this thread.
In the old days it seems Philips sold a lot of lanterns under licence from other manufacturers. Here is a list of examples:
Philips MA3 - Eleco SR304/5
Philips MA4 - cross between Eleco GR151/152
Philips MA5(C) - Eleco GR150/(151)
Philips MA6(C) - Eleco GR200/(201)
Philips MA9(C) - Eleco GR100/(101)
Philips MI5 - Phosco P223/225
Philips MI7 - Eleco GR553
Philips MI8 - Phosco P224/226
Philips MU4 - Phosco P172
Philips MU6 - Eleco HW/PT1179 series
Philips HRL10 - Eleco HW918/11600
Philips HRL40S - Eleco HW720
Philips Rhodes - Eleco Way
Philips ??? - Eleco PT1007 Lunar
Philips NVL - Schreder DM
Philips SRP251 - American Electric SRP-18L (reliability of this observation uncertain)
When it comes to Philips it seems like it may have been Philips who made lanterns under licence from other manufacturers rather than the other way round. For example, Eleco and Phosco both made more variants of some of the Philips products offered, and it seems Philips simply chose the most popular variants of these lanterns. It seems strange that Philips decided to sell some lanterns under licence given that their own product range was quite developed at the time. For example, why offer the MA5 in the UK when they could have offered the Dutch made SRM? Perhaps in the case of Britain it was a case of British Standards getting in the way somehow, even though we know that Dutch made Philips lanterns were installed back in the early 1970s on motorways where British Standards were most strict. Doesn't explain Eleco lanterns abroad though.