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> 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
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