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Hi Gordon:
There was a vendor at Tobyhanna that had both Military ones and civialan
ones (With green Marbles), I don't know who he was, maybe someone else on
the list saw/remembers him. (He had losts of dodge parts in clear zip lock
bags)
Hank
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From: Gordon.W.I. McMillan <gwim2@student.open.ac.uk>
To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 4:18 PM
Subject: [MV] Marble reflectors
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> All right then, time to throw a challenge or two at the list.
>
> Most collectors of early US equipment will have seen the marbled
> reflectors used on the early '40s vehicles. They were rapidly superceded
> by the plastic ones we all know and love (make that 'buy regularly')
> For those that haven't seen them they fit the standard mounting centres,
> but have fourteen red (or yellow) marbles in a matrix on the front. They
> are normally marked "King Bee, Photo-Ray No 295, american Automatic
> Devices, Chicago, USA" Not surprising they were superceded as they weigh
> more than twice what the plastic ones do and are fairly inefficient.
>
> Although I always associate them with 1940 vehicles one of my WC 36
> Carryalls came with them on, and it had a January '42 delivery date on it,
> so anyone know when 'they' stopped using them ?
>
> I need to get a few of the early reflectors for my Dodges. I bought a few
> used ones from Steve Greenberg, who has stopped making the new
> reproductions, and of course I keep an eye on e-bay for any that come up
> there, but has anyone else got a source for them ?
>
> Gordon
>
>
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