How rare is the brass magneto tail light

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2015: How rare is the brass magneto tail light
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By ROBERT BERGSTADT on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 03:36 pm:


Ford script all brass E & J
don't see many of these around, would this be for mag lights poss. 1915-16
Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 07:17 pm:

I have a few of those, but I don't see others often. I figured that E&J was making those for other car companies when Ford need some all of a sudden for the 19's, so E&J stamped Ford on some and filled the order. They are made just like the steel ones which came after and are so common, so I surmised they were the precursors to them. Someone told me a while back that Stutz used ones like that. It never occurred to me that they would be for mag lights.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John F. Regan on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 07:54 pm:

There is no evidence that the magneto voltage was ever applied to a tail light unless I missed it somewhere. The problem is that the bulbs for the headlight are wired in series when running on the magneto in the early days and adding a tail light in the string would make the total resistance likely too high and I don't know what bulb could be used directly for a single light to be magneto powered in that era.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By ROBERT BERGSTADT on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 09:02 am:

It is a double contact which makes me think it would run in a circuit, that's why I was thinking magneto, Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill Harper - Keene, NH on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 09:40 am:

Likely double contact because the stock Ford lamp bracket is attached to the wooden subframe of the body. My two cents worth, perhaps over valued. Bill


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 11:30 am:

Nothing wrong with a double contact! It can be used as a stop light too.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Georgetown TX on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 09:55 pm:

I would guess 1919 - 1920 battery tail lamp. Brass looked just like steel when it was painted black.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kohnke Rebabbitting on Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 06:54 pm:

Agree!


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