Tell us something we don’t know.

[LouNY]

You gotta wonder what the rear lighting arrangement was on that vehicle. Obviously no reverse or license plate lights, but it looks like just a single lens on each side. We know a brake light was required, and many cars into the 40's had only one tail light. So, is that one tail light and one brake light?

edit: nevermind, figured it out here: Powell Sports Wagon Registry. They had two lenses on left, blocked by the crouching man in that photo. I assume they're brake and tail light on left, and just one brake on the right. This was common in the 1930's and into the 40's, but unusual for anything this late(?).

I believe brake could double-duty as turn signal, at that time. Heck, I think USA still allows red turn signals on rear, something most other countries outlawed decades ago.

Dual filament bulbs, one filament for brake or turn and one for tail light.

 

[WinterDeere]

Dual filament bulbs, one filament for brake or turn and one for tail light.

Not sure why I didn't think of that. I remember changing many on my various 1970's - 1990's cars, and I assume they go back to not that long after the first tail lights were introduced.

 

[ponytug]

Dual filament bulbs, one filament for brake or turn and one for tail light.

Yes, and who was the genius who put two different brightness filaments in a bulb that could be installed two different ways, one of which was incorrect?

I can remember a certain amount of frustration changing those bulbs, and I do not miss those bulbs one bit.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Jim Shooz]

Remember them well but the pins were usually off-set so they would only fit one way

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Remember them well but the pins were usually off-set so they would only fit one way

That's the only way I ever saw them too. They had Staggered pins to fit in the socket only one way.

Unless Bongo The Gorilla was putting them in, you couldn't get one in backwards.

 

[orezok]

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Thank you.

Totally fake picture. You do know cooling towers put off water vapor?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dirty coal will continue to decline. Natural gas is cheaper and cleaner.

It’s a shame what the war on coal has done to our country. Thousands of people lost their jobs where I grew up. Manufacturing now done overseas. What a sorry bunch who support this.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Coal can burn clean with stack scrubbers.

 

[ning]

Coal can burn clean with stack scrubbers.

For some definition of clean, sure.