"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 24/10/2019 15:00, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
Some of us remember the days of parking lights. No street lighting,
so had to be on all the hours of dark. And with a weedy dynamo.


Indeed, little things you attached to the window ( they clipped over
the edge and stuck out). Single bulb in an egg shaped plastic lens,
red one end, clear the other, held in a black rubber arm which also
formed the clip to go over the window.

Not that I€˜m old enough to have used one but I remember my father
using them and fitting a little 2 pin connector to plug them into in
his cars. (No cigarette lighters in cars then.)

Yes, we had one. One (5W?) bulb instead of four left on.

Rather more than that. The number plate light. And all the instrument
lighting too.

None of my instrument lights stay on with the sidelights if the ignition
is off.

I had forgotten the number plate light, but as I have said elsewhere it
*might* not stay on either - it is certainly switched separately. It comes
on alone when the car is unlocked - very useful for avoiding catching the
towball when passing the back of the car.

Mine doesnt and that would be very useful because
I always walk past it when I get into the car at home.