More Motor Car Lanterns

I ran across the lantern below on ebay. It is exactly the same design as the Fairmont one, indicating that it was made by the same manufacturer. However, the body appears to be made of steel, probably the reason for the black paint on it.  Perhaps it was made during WWII, when aluminum was reserved for other uses. The name on the top is Harris Bros Manufacturing Company, Dayton, Ohio and it is Model # 8.

 

Next up are a couple of lanterns probably made by Delta in Marion, Indiana. This type of lantern was sold for general industrial use in the forties and fifties. They were supplied to the military, so if you have one that is painted in Battleship Grey, chances are that it really was used on a Navy vessel. The railroads did buy some of these lanterns. There was no manufacturers name stamped into these two. The gray one is 9-S-5293-L, Type-JR-1S. The red one is 9-S-5311-L, Type-J-1. 

The red lantern below is a Redbird Electric Lantern manufactured by the Delta Electric Company in Marion, Indiana. There is no model number. The black one is a Big Beam 500R made by the U-C-Lite Manufacturing Company in Chicago. This one is mounted on the front rail of a motor car and can be swiveled left or right, up or down. 

In the eighties and nineties, the type of lanterns used are shown below, hard plastic of different colors made by the Starr Manufacturing Company of Avon, New York. These are cheap and effective for any use at night. I carry one of these in my automobile and use them around the house too. The model is Starlite 292. 


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Last Edited 28 January, 2018