Essex windshield mounted spotlight

hudsontech

I rcvd an email from an Essex owner down in Uraguay, a 1929 Essex roadster.

He sent me some pictures - one shows a spotlight mounted to the right hand side of the windshield. On the lens is the Essex emblem with Essex Super Six inside it. If I knew how to post pictures I'd post a picture of it. Oh well.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

hudsontech

hudsontech wrote:

I rcvd an email from an Essex owner down in Uraguay, a 1929 Essex roadster.

He sent me some pictures - one shows a spotlight mounted to the right hand side of the windshield. On the lens is the Essex emblem with Essex Super Six inside it. If I knew how to post pictures I'd post a picture of it. Oh well.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Hmmmmm - must be a really rare piece. No comments so far. Apparently nobody has ever seen one - at least no one in the 50 or so who have read this post. Go to my MSN web site @ http://groups.msn.com/HudsonMotorCarCompany/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us



and click on Custom and Street Rod Hudson - I just tucked the photo of the light there for want of a better place at the time.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

mars55

This must be the start of the spotlight craze that lasted into the fifties. Now if I can just figure out that they did with them. I have a spotlight on my Commodore and people ask what it's used for and I don't know what to tell them. A spotlight on twenties car is indeed rare piece. I don't remember ever seeing a picture of any make of twenties car with a spotlight.

Unknown

a friend gave me a couple of boxes of old car (mostly dodge) stuff and there was 2 windshield mounted spotlights (one complete + parts for another) i took them to an old guy that runs his own museum nearby--he said outfits like JC Whitney sold kits with a special hole saw to drill the hole through the windshield glass--he actually had one installed on a model T and it went right through the glass----guess you just had to be smart enough to avoid the wiper blade it you had one---bob

hudsontech

mars55 wrote:

This must be the start of the spotlight craze that lasted into the fifties. Now if I can just figure out that they did with them. I have a spotlight on my Commodore and people ask what it's used for and I don't know what to tell them. A spotlight on twenties car is indeed rare piece. I don't remember ever seeing a picture of any make of twenties car with a spotlight.

Go to my web site @ http://groups.msn.com/HudsonMotorCarCompany/

and click on Essex Motors 1926-1931, then go to page 2. There's a picture of a 1930 Essex with a spotlight on each side (Sun Sedan at the start of the 2nd line of photos). While in the same place as the 1929, the mounting is different.

The 1929 photo is also on page 2.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr