Vintage cycle lamps

[Baggy]

Last year I won a CTC competition and received this marvellous trophy to keep for a year

 

[Hover Fly]

NT has converted a rather feeble dynamo lamp on Granville the shopper with the innards of a head torch.

There might be those who'd consider it sacrilege, but if you wanted a vintage bike with a vintage lamp, but actually wanted to use it, then I don't see the problem with upgrading it. It could probably be done with minimal damage, if one was careful.

Perhaps if it was the last of its kind, it should be preserved, but otherwise, why condemn it to being feeble when it could be useful.

Decent carbide lamps are anything but feeble. Inconvenient, messy, smelly, dangerous, and difficult to get parts for, yes, but there was a reason for old timers like my father keeping with them until the 1960s.

 

[Night Train]

Would these count as 'vintage'? I could send them for your collection.