I'd never heard what BEREC stood for, obvious once you're seen it!
"Back in the day" most such things had to conform to a British Standard, I'm sure BS3638 is British Standard number 3648 for rear bicycle lamps or something?
Nowadays me-thinks everything will be covered by some dreaded EEC regulation instead?
Alan Lloyd
Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A.
> From: Leonard Diamond <leonarddiamond@verizon.net>
\r?\n> Subject: RE:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now "Berec'?
\r?\n> To: "'Alan Lloyd'" <adl2k@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:04 AM
\r?\n> We sold bunches of these in the AYH store on Spring Street
\r?\n> in NYC. With 2 D
\r?\n> cells they weighed a ton but were state of the art at the
\r?\n> time (tons better
\r?\n> than wonder lights). Attachments for the left fork blade
\r?\n> were hard to come
\r?\n> by but friends always cleaned out the shops of them
\r?\n> whenever they visited
\r?\n> the UK. I sent our listmeister photos of the ones I still
\r?\n> have and he is
\r?\n> posting them on the cr site somewhere.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I never knew but Berec is an acronym for:
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> BEREC = British Ever Ready Electrical Company
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Another bit of trivia courtesy of Stephen Bauman, a long
\r?\n> time NYC AYH bike
\r?\n> leader: what is the meaning of "BS3648" cast
\r?\n> into the red plastic lens of
\r?\n> the BEREC rear light?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Len Diamond
\r?\n> Ridgewood, New Jersey USA