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A visitor to the site is looking for details of the size and bracket of the reflector fitted to an Emergency Carbide Incident Lamp. If you happen to have one of these lamps, could you use the contact page to email me the dimensions and photos of the bracket? UPDATE: This has now been sorted.  Emergency Carbide Incident Lamp Reflector
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A number of businesses sold items to the general public with claims that they would help in the event of a fire (caused by incendiary bombs (IBs)). The example below is of a glass 'grenade' whose contents are allegedly designed to affect the spread of a fire. The glass balls below have long since lost their contents. Originally costing two shillings and six pence (just under a fiver in 2025). How useful would items like this be? I'm pretty sure they would be of limited use, but they could also be used as Christmas tree decorations...  Firex Glass Fire Extinguisher Grenade  Firex Glass Fire Extinguisher Grenade Instructions With the Lighting (Restrictions) Order, 1940 coming into force, car owners had to make changes to their headlights. Only the nearside headlamp was to be used and masked with a special filter; the offside headlamp's bulb was to be removed. Several businesses made the headlamp masks, amongst them Lucas.  Lucas Masked Headlamp  Lucas Masked Headlamp (details) A rare photograph of the Moore Detector in operations. A two-man piece of kit where the large loudspeaker is placed on the rubble and the other person can then listen for any sounds made by people underneath. The operator can also speak into the loudspeaker to let the buried person or persons know they have been located.  Moore Detector - Equipment To Locate Buried People Two axes (Axe, Civil Defence, ARP Pattern Number 55) were issued to Civil Defence members during the Second World War, one with an insulated rubberised handle (often marked as ARPAX A.R.P. 55) and the other with an ash wooden handle. Both would fit inside a white heavy cotton canvas carrier (Pouch for Axe, Civil Defence, ARP Pattern Number 56) that could be slung over the shoulder or attached to a belt.  ARP axes and canvas pouch  Ash-handled axe and pouch  Civil Defence axe ARPAX ARP 55 |
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