Gernot Vonhoegen wrote:
>
> > ----------
> > From: Andrew Mace[SMTP:amace@unix2.nysed.gov]
> > Reply To: Andrew Mace
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 6:44 PM
> > To: fred thomas
> > Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: headlamps
> >
> >
> > Can you stand one more, Fred? Pertinent to the original question about
> >
> > Tripod lamps.
> >
> > The one you probably want is the one often pictured on factory photos
> > of
> > TR3s and early TR4s -- the "P700" lamp. This has a small round
> > medallion
> > in the center of the tripod with the word LUCAS on it. It takes a
> > dual-filament headlamp bulb secured by a bayonet-fix socket. That is
> > either attached to the wiring harness (home market) for the lamp unit,
> > or
> > there is an adaptor p/n 554691 available, which plugs into the
> > "standard"
> > U.S. three-hole headlamp socket. The LHD lamp unit itself is or was
> > originally p/n 555296.
> >
> > Then there is the "PL700"; this looks similar, but the medallion in
> > the
> > center is more "shield" shaped and has LUCAS on top and PL in large
> > letters underneath. This lamp takes the "Type A" headlamp bulb, which
> > has
> > the three prongs incorporated into the base of the bulb itself. The
> > LHD
> > unit carried the original p/n of 54520293.
> >
> > Hope that helps somewhat.
> >
> > --Andy
> >
> Reply, now we are getting into the interresting stuff, what
> about even earlier headlamps, is there any such thing as lhd and rhd, I
> am thinking of beasts like the king of darkness of the fourties and
> thirties
>
> Gernot
Gernot, I have a 1924 Ford model "T" & a 1931 ord model "A", and both of
these cars the direction of the light is in the lense them selves, bulbs
in the back of the reflector and then the glass lense has all sorts of
direction angles, can't think of the proper word so I use my own, so yes
there were left & right way back when, but not sure for euro. cars.
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