Abstract: A wholly enclosed armature for fluorescent tubes, which is designed for outdoor use, has a transparent, cylindrically tubular cover member (18) which supports at the one end a permanent coupling housing (23) and at the opposite end supports an easily detechable end cover (22). A fluorescent tube-carrying support arrangement (24) is axially displaceably received in the cover member (18) between the coupling housing (23) and the end cover (22). The inner end of the support arrangement (24) is provided with guide members (42,43) of a first type which cooperate with guide members (47-49) of an equivalent second type on the coupling member. The support arrangement and the coupling member are provided with their respective contact members which form a current connection between the support arrangement and the coupling member and which are relatively moveable inwardly into and outwardly from engagement with each other guided by the said guide members (42,43; 47-49).

Abstract: Electrical lighting fixture (10) with holder (19) for light tubes (22) or lamp bulbs (228), where at opposite ends the holder supports contact-forming means (20, 21) for the support of one or more light tubes freely hanging between the contact-forming means in a horizontal or substantially horizontal position or for the support of a series of lamp bulbs, and where the holder also forms a support for a transparent cover (17). The holder comprises a rigid, self-supporting support beam (24, 124, 224) which projects free endedly outwards from a fastening at its one end (23, 223), with the light tube or tubes (22) and with the light bulbs (228) extending parallel to or across the support beam. The cover (17), which surrounds the support beam with associated light tubes or lamp bulbs, has an elongate container-forming shape and is adapted to be secured only at its one end, that is to say at the opening of the container just by the inner end of the support beam.