Lucas Rear Motorcycle lamp, Electrolysis rust removal

[Peter Laidler]

Yu' know what....... there something quite good and telling about seeing how it really was, pitting an' all, beneath a coat of new paint. How many virtually and totally rusted out No32's are out there, optically and mechanically like brand new, with formerly rusted and pitted tubes but are now saved from the scrap yard. They're the ones that have a bit of history attached.

My pal found a stack of about 6 of old wartime blue Police and bronze green kakhi NFS/AFS helmets in an old council building being converted into flats. I arranged for them to be bead blasted and re-phosphated but the pitting was heavy and still remained of course. He had them painted in the correct colours and the sign-writer, an old fashioned one who used paint instead of stickers..... (and hand painted the logos on our Mod Sports car) repainted the white word POLICE and rank markers plus the red NFS (national fire service although one was marked AFS - Army?). And they did look very good. Just me of course