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Found! Vintage Car Headlamp
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Sherlock



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:39 pm    Post subject: Found! Vintage Car Headlamp Reply with quote
Hi

I don't collect or restore cars but I've registered today to try and identify this headlamp that we found while out walking in the Bedfordshire countryside the other day. It was sitting on a grass verge. I would like reunite it with its owner.

From which car might it be from do you think?

I have emailed local classic car clubs.

Thanks
Sherlock

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mikeC



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh dear, someone's going to be unhappy!

The armoured wiring suggests it's from a car of the 1920s, although it looks like it might be one of the modern reproductions rather than an original. However, if you found it like that with the nut and washers still on the stem, then it hasn't broken off a car - it may have dropped off an autojumbler's wagon.
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Sherlock



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the reply!

From this photo the bracket seems to have rusted through which may have been the cause.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157290120@N07/43720676920/in/dateposted-public/

If I don't manage to trace the owner I would be at a loss to know what to do with it Sad
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Penguin45



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lucas RB160S lamp.

Fitted to all sorts......

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Rick
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'll post details on the OCC Facebook page. The lamp looks a little battered but I'm sure the owner would like it back.

I once forgot to re-fit little Dodge's fuel filler cap, I'd left it on top of the rear-mounted spare wheel. Fortunately it turned up when I re-traced my steps, someone had put it onto a kerb next to the road out of the petrol station, so I was very grateful for that.

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47Jag



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mike,

If you check the first picture the remains of the mount are there. Flat steel snapped halfway across the spigot. I’ve no idea what it would be from but you probably will when you see the remains.

Art
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Ray White



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rick wrote:
I'll post details on the OCC Facebook page. The lamp looks a little battered but I'm sure the owner would like it back.

I once forgot to re-fit little Dodge's fuel filler cap, I'd left it on top of the rear-mounted spare wheel. Fortunately it turned up when I re-traced my steps, someone had put it onto a kerb next to the road out of the petrol station, so I was very grateful for that.

RJ


I did something similar. Running boards tend to be useful shelves! I went out one morning and I hadn't gone far when I noticed the car behind flashing it's headlights. We both pulled over and he said things were falling off my car!

I had left a box of new valve guides on the passenger side running board. The box had turned over and the guides were coming out and falling into the road, one after the other. I was very lucky to retrieve all the valve guides that had escaped - some had simply rolled up to the curb while others had landed in the grass verge.

I always check the running boards now.
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