Blue Headlights?

[Chris Munford]

Ok. I am just wondering whether my carrier would have had them but as you say the early ones came out of the factory like that in NZ so it may be the same in Aus.

[Lynn Eades]

If I recall correctly, in that picture parts book, they are marked obsolete.

[The Bedford Boys]

The blue or clear ones Lynn? All the NOS ones I've seen have clear lenses

[Chris Munford]

Marked obsolete as of what date?

[Lynn Eades]

O.K. so I remembered it wrong. There doesn't appear to be a clear headlight lens at all. Only a blue one (101/2)(page 2 of, List of spare parts for the Carrier M.G.(Aust) 1943)
On page 3, the red tail light lens is cancelled in favour of the 102/2A blue lens.

Maybe the clear headlight lenses are a post war thing?

[Richard Farrant]

The question I have been asking for years is about blue tail lamps on British tanks and Carriers. I came across this when installing the electrical system on a restored Vickers Light tank Mk6a. There is a blue and a red lamp at the rear, with individual switching on instrument panel, I believe early Carriers were also like this. Nothing in the manuals to indicate why. I wondered if it was switched to blue if reversing back when in action to warn infantry behind.

[Lynn Eades]

Richard, it appears with the LP2/2A at least, that all lights had blue lenses.(left, right, front, and rear) I haven't done any night driving with them and do not know what the effects of blue lensed light are compared to red.
What tail light colours did the infantry tanks have?
I would have thought an option like you say was more important with them than with carriers and tanks that were too fast for infantry.
This probably deserves its own thread?
I hope someone can enlighten us?