CMPs in France

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler

The headlamp itself would have been readily available, but it would have been very difficult to find an original CMP headlamp bowl to replace the blank plate on the driver's side. Interestingly this problem doesn't seem to have arisen on Australian CMPs, as they all appear to have been fitted with two headlamps at assembly.
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I'm inclined to query the lowering of headlamps to comply with road regs - could it not be that the bumper bar was simply the easiest place to mount new headlamps?

Tony,

It is a known fact that in some countries (Belgium, Denmark) the headlight position of CMPs was too high to comply to road regulations. So for registered use on the road, one had to fit (new) headlamps in a lower position.

In other countries without this type of regulation like the Netherlands they had no trouble finding a second headlight bowl from the vast post-war spares stocks, if they hadn't one fitted already (like in Australia).

Hanno