THOUGHT THEY WERE OLD HEADLIGHTS - HWY PATROL SPOTLIGHTS?

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  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    These were part of a large box of smalls I bought from my friend; who found them with a lot of other cool & unusual vintage stuff. At first I (and he) thought they were old car headlights, but that was at dusk in a storage unit we were emptying - when I got them home I saw the little switch to turn them on & off and knew they couldn't be headlights.
    But my next thought was that they were old police car spotlights?! (Car 51 where are you?)?
    Any help would be appreciated!
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  2. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

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  3. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    More like for a farm tractor
     
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  4. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Did tractors have chrome lights? (my tractor isn't terribly old so has modern lighting)
     
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  5. mmarco102

    mmarco102 Well-Known Member

    By your images, the green wire doesn’t seem to be connected to the lights. Looks like it was just used to hold(tie) the two lights together. Seeing they only have one wire coming out, the current was completed via ground. Very typical for mobile transportation. A motorcycle would not have the knob to twist and turn. Even the old police search lights had the control inside the vehicle(Think Chicago winters). They were probably used as a spot light on a boat. The switch is for practically and the half dome inside the lens covering the buld makes it a spot light as opposed to a flood seen on most vehicals for moving foward.

    IMHO

    Those lights might have saved somebody’s life :)

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    Old police search light

    Oh and not to show my age but it was ...”CAR 54” ;)
     
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  6. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    reverse light on a tractor cabin of a semi-trailer to see the coupling ?
     
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  7. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    (I knew that '51' didn't sound quite right!)
     
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    i need help Moderator Moderator

    997A0883-CDF5-4B5C-8A20-F54E57C8B01E.jpeg Does this say something?
     
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  9. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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  10. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    Call the American Pickers guys ;)
     
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