> I don't know about the UK, but in Germany such kitchen lights would
> often not be fluorescent tubes at all, but so-called "Linienlampen" -
> incandescent light bulbs in a tubular shape with a long filament and
> special sockets.
>
>
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linienlampe#mediaviewer/Datei:Linestra_with_visible_filament.jpg

Ooh interesting, never seen or heard of that before. I don't think they 
were very common, if available at all here. All the ones I remember 
always had the starter ballast in the side, which presumably is not 
needed for the Linienlampen.

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