Blue Headlights?

[David Burr]

The blue lenses appear to help produce a whiter light.

[The Bedford Boys]

The blue headlights aren't bad to drive with at night. I've driven a carrier at night with clear lenses and I could see better when I turned them off! My understanding is that in NZ at least they started off making them with blue lenses and by the end of production weren't putting the blue film in between the two glasses that make up the lense. This may have been due to lack of material to make the blue part, or they deemed it unnecessary for some reason. The blue definitely makes for a better light to drive at night with.

[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?