[CR]RE:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now "Berec'?

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:11:02 -0800 (PST)
From: "Alan Lloyd" <adl2k@yahoo.com>
To: Leonard Diamond <leonarddiamond@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <002201c9499f$a8b67f90$fa237eb0$@net>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]RE:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now "Berec'?

I'd never heard what BEREC stood for, obvious once you're seen it!

"Back in the day" most such things had to conform to a British Standard, I'm sure BS3638 is British Standard number 3648 for rear bicycle lamps or something?

Nowadays me-thinks everything will be covered by some dreaded EEC regulation instead?

Alan Lloyd
Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A.


--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Leonard Diamond wrote:


> From: Leonard Diamond <leonarddiamond@verizon.net>

\r?\n> Subject: RE:Was: UK bicycle lamps, now "Berec'?

\r?\n> To: "'Alan Lloyd'" <adl2k@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:04 AM

\r?\n> We sold bunches of these in the AYH store on Spring Street

\r?\n> in NYC. With 2 D

\r?\n> cells they weighed a ton but were state of the art at the

\r?\n> time (tons better

\r?\n> than wonder lights). Attachments for the left fork blade

\r?\n> were hard to come

\r?\n> by but friends always cleaned out the shops of them

\r?\n> whenever they visited

\r?\n> the UK. I sent our listmeister photos of the ones I still

\r?\n> have and he is

\r?\n> posting them on the cr site somewhere.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I never knew but Berec is an acronym for:

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> BEREC = British Ever Ready Electrical Company

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Another bit of trivia courtesy of Stephen Bauman, a long

\r?\n> time NYC AYH bike

\r?\n> leader: what is the meaning of "BS3648" cast

\r?\n> into the red plastic lens of

\r?\n> the BEREC rear light?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Len Diamond

\r?\n> Ridgewood, New Jersey USA