[CR]FW:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now "Berec'?

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:15:20 -0800 (PST)
From: "Alan Lloyd" <adl2k@yahoo.com>
To: Leonard Diamond <leonarddiamond@verizon.net>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]FW:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now "Berec'?

Ha: just Google BS3648, loads of hits!

Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations - BS6102/3 & BS3648

Rear Lamp One is required, to show a red light, marked BS3648 or BS6102/3 (or equivalent), positioned centrally or offside, between 0.35m and 1.5m from the ground, at or near the rear, aligned towards and visible from behind.

Alan Lloyd
Schaumburg, Illinois, USA


--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Alan Lloyd wrote:


> From: Alan Lloyd <adl2k@yahoo.com>

\r?\n> Subject: RE:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now "Berec'?

\r?\n> To: "Leonard Diamond" <leonarddiamond@verizon.net>

\r?\n> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:11 AM

\r?\n> I'd never heard what BEREC stood for, obvious once

\r?\n> you're seen it!

\r?\n>

\r?\n> "Back in the day" most such things had to conform

\r?\n> to a British Standard, I'm sure BS3638 is British

\r?\n> Standard number 3648 for rear bicycle lamps or something?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Nowadays me-thinks everything will be covered by some

\r?\n> dreaded EEC regulation instead?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Alan Lloyd

\r?\n> Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A.

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Leonard Diamond

\r?\n> <leonarddiamond@verizon.net> wrote:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> > From: Leonard Diamond

\r?\n> <leonarddiamond@verizon.net>

\r?\n> > Subject: RE:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now

\r?\n> "Berec'?

\r?\n> > To: "'Alan Lloyd'"

\r?\n> <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

\r?\n> Street

\r?\n> > in NYC. With 2 D

\r?\n> > cells they weighed a ton but were state of the art at

\r?\n> the

\r?\n> > time (tons better

\r?\n> > than wonder lights). Attachments for the left fork

\r?\n> 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

\r?\n> 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

\r?\n> long

\r?\n> > time NYC AYH bike

\r?\n> > leader: what is the meaning of "BS3648"

\r?\n> 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