Sidelights and Type 65 & Nippies

[Stuart Joseph]

Good evening. Was the type 65 fitted with sidelights in the headlamps and the Nippy with wing mounted sidelights? Perusal of the gallery would suggest this.

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire

Stuart

[Colin Wilks]

I can confirm my type 65 has sidelights in the headlamps.

[Nigel was in Brittany]

And my Nippy had them on the wings.

[Nick Turley]

Good evening. Was the type 65 fitted with sidelights in the headlamps and the Nippy with wing mounted sidelights? Perusal of the gallery would suggest this.

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire

Stuart

Yes

[Stuart Joseph]

Good evening. Many thanks for the replies. I am in the process of writing up the usage of Lucas lighting products and the Austin 7 using what I have gleaned over the years and Lucas documentation (which isn't always accurate) and I was uncertain about the sports models.

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire.

Stuart

[Tony Press]

Good evening. Many thanks for the replies. I am in the process of writing up the usage of Lucas lighting products and the Austin 7 using what I have gleaned over the years and Lucas documentation (which isn't always accurate) and I was uncertain about the sports models.

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire.

Stuart

Stuart,

Are you including the Lucas 'switchboxes' in the write up ?

I have a copy of the Lucas Spare Parts &complete units Austin 7 hp 1927-30 which lists

Switchbox - SM1 (magneto ignition)
Switchbox - SM3/ER 1 (magneto ignition)
Switchbox - SM3 BN7  (coil ignition)

I wonder is this a misprint for SM5 BN7 ?

I had not seen this BN7 suffix before but a picture of the rear of an SM5 switchbox showed a brass tag stamped SM5 BN7.

I understood the early SM5 Switchbox didn't have a resistor wire for the warning bulb listed on the Lucas sheet as SM/MES 8/9V

I wonder if the later ? SM5 with resistor wire had a suffix ? 

There is also an interesting listing for Ignition Coils but that is for another time.

Cheers, Tony.

[Stuart Joseph]

Hello Tony, at the moment I am concentrating on Lucas lighting 1928 -1938.
I have become a 'skier' (spending the kids inheritance) on original Lucas documentation but I don't have a Lucas parts list which embraces the changeover from mag to coil.
I think I have identified a number of differences between the publications and production (one concerning a pattern of tail light that appears in the publications but I can find no evidence of it actually ever being fitted). Perhaps printing lagged behind actual production and the parts were never actually fitted.

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire

Stuart