A reminder to those wishing to install the hooded blackout shield: you must have the original headlight glass (removed for installation of the shield) which was separate from the reflector. If you have modern glass sealed beams then the only blackout shield you can use is the convex metal shield (no hood) which conforms to the curved shape of the glass. The convex style came in 3 versions: solid shield (no light allowed) , a pinhole style and a style with a half-moon-shaped opening.
Late in the war a more practical hooded shield was introduced which had a rotating section that allowed the shield to act as a the original shield did or, when the section was rotated then a large glass area is exposed for normal driving. The only parts book that I have seen that shows the late version is the Windsor Carrier parts book; it was published late enough to include the upgraded shield............ Brian
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