#8074 - Round cover within heavy duty square casing.
France - Nice
Europe continues to be a rich source of cast iron valve covers. A variety of covers for gas, electricity and water (eau) are shown.
Nice is a seaside city on the Cote d'Azur. Known for a rich lifestyle and ideal weather and pebbly beach. The Promenade d'anglais is justly famous for strolling. The special sunlight in southern France was instrumental in the Impressionist art movement.
2022 Post CoVid 19 Europe trip yielded these covers. A lot of Nice's footpaths (sidewalks) have been repaved and re-aligned. This is providing an unusually wide range of covers.
Good range of covers, many still ductile iron. Few recycled covers starting to appear. Gaz is gas and Eau is water.
* after ID indicates larger cover. ** is manhole size.
Interestingly the featured image - Ville de France - has three similar but different covers below: #8074, #8075 & #8086. All have same similar ID (with variants) and casing (with variants). All have four raised dots near each corner.
Note - Lip balm for scale is 70mm long and 18mm diam.
Featured image: #8074 'Ville de Nice". Heavy duty with raised round lugs on casing.
page created Sept 2022, updated Oct, 2022; 6 Oct, 2023.