During my visit with Clive Kent he brought out this lamp, its a headlight actually but a special type. This is an oil headlight, run by whaleoil usually and this style was used originally on many things, boats, horse carriages and the like, but as time progressed they were used on trucks and cars for a short period of time.
Clive told me that as a kid growing up on what is now known as Kents Beach, he used to go through the bush and find all sorts of old equipement, this headlight was one of the few things he held onto. He didn’t know it at the time he showed me because he had it put away and almost forgot he had it.
After taking the photo of it and I went back to my campsite, he came over after a while and said “Hey I know what its from now, its from a 1926 Studebaker, I found it online” and he grinned from ear to ear, solving a mystery for himself after a lifetime of not knowing.
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