Stan4d
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TOP, please start a thread in buy/sell/trade about them......I for one am very interested.
(if Top does not apply then please forgive me.)
(if Top does not apply then please forgive me.)
I have a reproduction carbide miner's lamp and it is about as bright as a cigarette lighter.
Mind you is is not a fancy one like the bicycle lamp discussed in this thread, but I have my reservations concerning if the bicycle lamp is bright enough to use while traveling 20 to 30 mph down the road at night. As for a static display item, the bicycle lamp looks awesome!
They were also used on cars during this time- of course those were a bigger operation with the gas generator on the running board and the tubes running for-and-aft to headlights/tail-lights (which had to be lit pretty close to simultaneouse to avoid explosions), but apparently electric won out due to conveniance as I have read several contemporary accounts complaining about their dim nature by comparison. A miner's lamp works in a windless, close-to situation without lens or bezel, sometimes without reflectors-it will not compete with these.
the Old Sgt.