Ever ready lamps.

[EltonFrog]

An acquaintance of mine has a collection old tat lights.

 

[Sharky]

Just reminded myself, I used to have a set of ever ready lights which were locable onto the bracket. Tried googling them, but no luck.

Used to do a 23 mile each way, so needed lights am and pm. They took the big D cells, and I used to have two on the front. I also used rechargeable batteries, so I had to cary 4, or was it six D cells in my pockets!

Found them, they weren't ER's, but duracells
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26591301...idd6c6ysrq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Anyone remember the wonder lights? Ran of a door bell battery.

 

[Dogtrousers]

An acquaintance of mine has a collection old tat lights.

Switch them all on at once and you might have enough to dimly illuminate the room. For a short time.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ah yes the old Never Ready lights. Many a time I made connections with wire and solder and still they were cr&p

 

[Porsche924]

Wow I remember those! I had a set on my touring bike.

Ps: I love Porsche 924! Did someone say they aren't good any more? Yeah they are! They're made of steel too, and steel is real. Uhm....

Galvanised as well. They were once described to me as being as reliable as a wood burning stove.

 

[cougie uk]

Anyone remember the wonder lights? Ran of a door bell battery.

View attachment 667307

Yes. Paper wrapped flat batteries that turned into papier mache in your pocket on a dark and wet ride.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Anyone remember the wonder lights? Ran of a door bell battery.

I remember getting some and thinking how good they were.

We couldn't see where we were going ... but we were 'appy.

 

[classic33]

Found them, they weren't ER's, but duracells
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26591301...idd6c6ysrq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

They were worse than the Night Rider lights.
Brackets were made of a harder plastic, and I lost both front lights after hitting a bump.

 

[mustang1]

Galvanised as well. They were once described to me as being as reliable as a wood burning stove.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that. I remember something about a 10 year warranty on the body.

 

[tyred]

I have some of various types. I'm tempted to buy some LED bulbs for them to see what it would be like.

I fitted the LED conversion you can get for the Sturmey Dynohub lights to my Rudge just as an experiment and the lights are pretty bright now.

 

[EltonFrog]

Switch them all on at once and you might have enough to dimly illuminate the room. For a short time.

I have some of various types. I'm tempted to buy some LED bulbs for them to see what it would be like.

I fitted the LED conversion you can get for the Sturmey Dynohub lights to my Rudge just as an experiment and the lights are pretty bright now.

the chap with all the lights up thread, restores them and converts them to LEDs.

 

[Dadam]

Jeez my Dad had those! He was forever changing batteries, bashing the case, sanding the contacts and swearing at them.
A great example of incontrovertible progress.

 

[mistyoptic]

Bit like a 924, great when they came out but a rather disappointing now.

See, the sad thing is that my first thought was not the car but this.

I give you the NHS 924 spectacle frame. Your sentence applies equally to it.

 

[Mike_P]

The sheer amount of those lights in landfill along with their batteries must be staggering. Surprised that PP6s ( equivalent of) are plainly still used as both Toolstation and Screwfix list them.