Golden Glow?

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:

> Seriously, was there any reason why the Railways installed spotlights on their PCC
> interurbans? If the initial reason was to provide better lighting than the
> Keystone lights on the dash, why did they continue to maintain spotlights after
> seal beam dash mounted lights replaced the Keystone units?

	Because the roof lights provided  m-u-c-h  b-e-t-t-e-r  illumination
than the sealed beam headlights?  Were you ever on a car at night when
the roof light was in use and you met another car?  They turned off the
roof lights to pass each other.  Not much illumination from the sealed
beam, even on high beam, as compared to the roof light!

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1940  --  1950
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