again michael comes up with rootes info. you have to decide whether you want
period correct or factory correct. in the sixties and seventies there was
really very little use of factory items.that could be the reason for the
rarity of them today. we could not afford the dealer price. thru one of the
larger aftermarket dealers you could buy brands such as marchal,hella,cibie
and lucas. there were round and rectangular shaped lights. i have a pair of
rectangular hellas that set inside the grill opening of my alpine for many
years. of course that's not a good idea on a tiger. a marchal standard lamp
cost 12.95, a quartz iodine cost 18.95. cibie sold one for 25.50 that they
said had a range of 3/4 of a mile. they also sold lucas PL-700 headlights
for 24.50 per pair. the number of switch panels that was being sold was
massive since all of the above sold them. they may have all been made by a
few manufacturers. i have a pair of 7" lumax that look massive on the front
of a beam. i also have an aftermarket switch panel that is identical to the
rootes panel.again it's all a matter of factory correct or period
correct.the principal is the same.
----- Original Message -----
From: "michael king" <michael.s.king@gmail.com>
To: <genepadgett@comcast.net>
Cc: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] driving lights
> Gene,
>
> On the early tigers (and all alpines from SI-3) they had the option of
> having the "fog" switch bellow the ammeter as the heater was controlled by
> a
> push/pull switch intergral in the control knobs for the ventilation
> system.
> these are the ones with the metal knobs. On the SI-3 alpines they had a
> perspex eschutcheon with "fog" on it that contorlled the lamp, though in
> that circumstance it was likely a single "fog" lamp. Also available was a
> seperate panel that mounted below the dash that contained a sparto rotatry
> switch that could bring on fog, dirving or both by rotating it.
>
> On the tiger images shown from period road test (though should be noted
> all
> those pics are UK cars)
> they list and show the small auxilery panel in my pics, they list single
> position lucas switches as part of the kit. and they could control 1 fog 1
> driving (hence 2 switches) or you could have 2 fog or 2 driving lamps.
>
> The factory lamps were always LUMAX, DF1 models on SI.II alpines and when
> they moved to 3 they had the smaller lamps, during 1963 they released a
> lamp
> with "ROOTES" instead of lumax in the centre.. this was stcok for all
> Tigers. It should be noted there were 3 types of bracket for the lamps,
> single stand along, ones incorperated into the optional badge bar and a
> rare
> set that mounted the lamps lower with a simple angled bracket that had a
> lamp using an angled mounting post (quite rare)
>
> Anyway.. if you want "factory" correct for a tiger they should be the
> ROOTES
> logoed lumax lamps, but there are plenty of nice period options, the lucas
> lamps, Wipac, Sparto lamps and even other types of slimline lumax
> options...
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Michael King
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