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Originally Posted by Hampus
With autumn on it's way it's time to get our torches ready for the many dark nights ahead of us...
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This thought has prompted me to dust off a few more of mine. Left to right:
1. Running off three U2-size cells and thought to be from the 1980s, this motorist’s lamp has a conventional spotlight with a detachable translucent amber cover which converts it into a warning beacon, a flashing amber warning light, and a white floodlight that looks like it contains a fluorescent tube but has just an ordinary torch bulb inside.
2. Pifco 3-cell rubber torch from the 1970s or later.
3. Odd Chinese-made chrome plated 2-cell torch, branded “White Elephant” which is ironic. It has a blue plastic ring around the lens, reminiscent of torches used by cinema usherettes in the 1950s, but it’s much newer than that.
4. Odd little 2-cell (U11) torch inherited from my late father.
5. Ever Ready square-fronted torch running off two U2s.
Phil