This thread is quite old now but I'm bumping it purely to enlighten Telecolor.
Here is a 1963 catalog from General Electric listing the specifications on their then modern street lighting, including fluorescent.
https://www.scribd.com/document/3316...g-Catalog-1963
Scribd link, sorry. You should be able to see the entire thing at least once before it nags you to register.
Note that the most powerful lamp they list is the Form 606. It's an 8 foot long 100lb+ monster that takes SIX 230w Very High Output tubes and ran so hot it came standard with active cooling. Power consumption is somewhere around 1200W and provides roughly 65000 lumens of light output.
http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-10671
General Electric was a very normal supplier in North America, so a lot of the products in that catalog will be recognized by a few people here