01-02-2018, 04:39 PM
Yes, Jim, you are correct. Technically the original glass faceted lens has not been legal in the UK since 1955. I remember Tony Griffiths being stopped on one occasion by the police, and he managed to get away by arguing that the total area of all the individual faces was sufficient to comply with the law, but I suspect he was on shaky ground there!
I am somewhat nervous about driving around without brake lights, but in reality even if I fitted them they wouldn't be a lot of use - yesterday I was out in my Seven and did around thirty miles in a mixture of quite rural roads and fairy busy town traffic. As a result of this thread I duly took note of the number of times my brake lights would have lit up, and it amounted to just seven occasions (excluding using the handbrake when stationary), and four of those occasions there was no-one behind me! Basically, I just don't use the brakes - I would be better off switching my lights on each time I slowed down!
I am somewhat nervous about driving around without brake lights, but in reality even if I fitted them they wouldn't be a lot of use - yesterday I was out in my Seven and did around thirty miles in a mixture of quite rural roads and fairy busy town traffic. As a result of this thread I duly took note of the number of times my brake lights would have lit up, and it amounted to just seven occasions (excluding using the handbrake when stationary), and four of those occasions there was no-one behind me! Basically, I just don't use the brakes - I would be better off switching my lights on each time I slowed down!