[Healeys] Headlamp light units

Rich Chrysler richchrysler at quickclic.net
Wed Mar 16 14:18:06 MST 2011


Tadek,
 
I can only speak for the policies and Guidelines we have developed for the
National Concours Registry here in North America. First you would have to
state to the judges that the car was built to for example "Canadian
Specification, or U.S. Specification, or West German Specification, etc.
Then the car would be evaluated against those specs.
 
There are quite a few examples in the Hundred Registry I'm maintaining where
a U.S. service man picking up a car in Dusseldorf through his PX program,
the car would usually have been made for the market it's destined for...in
that example, the car would be made to U.S. specification. Of course there
were exceptions, and that makes the possibilities endless.
To answer your last question, the U.S. market had the U.S. dealer install
standard spec. sealed beams before delivering to the customer because the
bulb type wasn't allowed. In Canada, however, the standard lamp fitted right
at Longbridge would be the RH dipping bulb type 700 series lamp and
reflector, at least up till mid 1961 when they went to sealed beams.
Years ago I went part way between with my BN2. I fitted a pair of Lucas
lemans RH dip reflectors with an uprated wattage hi and lo beam Lucas bulb.
The resulting light wasn't quite that of a halogen, but almost as good.

Rich Chrysler

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Tadeusz Malkiewicz
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:40 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Headlamp light units

Mike, Kees, Ira and others, Many thanks for all comments. I will try to sum
it up in a short while.


Before I make a decision to go for originality or for best lens I have one
more question to the Concourse gurus - what is 'approved' for a BN2? 

The guidelines are fairly liberal, stating "(...) any period U.S. headlamp
or Lucas headlamp will be acceptable (...)"
So, if this were a BN2 picked up by a US citizen in Europe, what would be
the right headlamp?

Tadek
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