05-05-2018, 09:59 PM
Good evening Alfie.
I am interested in the type of headlamps fitted to your RN. Currently I am preparing a series of articles on A7 lighting and I have found that the early RN's had Lucas R47's fitted with 'Lucas Graves' double filament dipping headlamp bulbs later being changes to the Lucas type 35/32 still fitted with the 'Lucas-Graves' bulbs and both with 'reeded' glasses.
These bulbs are still available but are more usually known as 'Bosch' bulbs. They have a larger diameter metal body and small and larger rectangular lugs (unlike the round pins normally fitted to bulbs), the purpose of these lugs is to ensure that the bulbs are inserted the correct way up to give the dip/main orientation.
The bulbs that have been identified as available would fit the 'scuttle' lamps (raised in an earlier posting) although there is no facility for focussing them.
Regards from Staffordshire - the creative county.
Stuart
I am interested in the type of headlamps fitted to your RN. Currently I am preparing a series of articles on A7 lighting and I have found that the early RN's had Lucas R47's fitted with 'Lucas Graves' double filament dipping headlamp bulbs later being changes to the Lucas type 35/32 still fitted with the 'Lucas-Graves' bulbs and both with 'reeded' glasses.
These bulbs are still available but are more usually known as 'Bosch' bulbs. They have a larger diameter metal body and small and larger rectangular lugs (unlike the round pins normally fitted to bulbs), the purpose of these lugs is to ensure that the bulbs are inserted the correct way up to give the dip/main orientation.
The bulbs that have been identified as available would fit the 'scuttle' lamps (raised in an earlier posting) although there is no facility for focussing them.
Regards from Staffordshire - the creative county.
Stuart