[IanNVJ35]

Thanks for all the interesting info, photos and scans - really good stuff and I wish that I could go back and pick up some more items from that era. I have spent the weekend french polishing a really tatty old Ever Ready that looked so sad that it was almost 'parts only' but with care I am getting there in making it work again. I plan to modify it to a 'Winter morning light' for those pitch black days when putting the bedroom light on is too much. I will use a single D battery which will run a 1.5 Volt 'Gibraltar' lamp - from the 1940's. I have done a test and the 0.3 Watts of light is just perfect for night time and the run time will be at least 30 hours on one cell. It has a hammered reflector which gives a beam that looks like gently swirling water in a rock pool - most relaxing. I'll photograph it when I have finished.