"BEEHIVE" / "JELLYJAR" Light Thread

[Liberty703]

Haven't seen a strobe on this thread yet, this is probably at the end of "modern". Dietz 12volt Strobe, still has foam mounting gasket stuck to the bottom. Doubting whether it was ever mounted to anything.

 

[DalmatProd]

I came across a couple of "beehive" lights about 10 years ago, when I first wanted to begin my collection. One is just the glass and the second one is on a metal base (no bottom - thus no electrical base) with a plaque that states "The Griffin Lamp Company No. 360, Hamilton Ohio U.S.A."





I've been thinking of trying to find bottoms I can use for a night light bulb or similar to I can add these two to the display I'm working on.





Thanks,





Steve

 

[Skip Goulet]

I came across a couple of "beehive" lights about 10 years ago, when I first wanted to begin my collection. One is just the glass and the second one is on a metal base (no bottom - thus no electrical base) with a plaque that states "The Griffin Lamp Company No. 360, Hamilton Ohio U.S.A."




I've been thinking of trying to find bottoms I can use for a night light bulb or similar to I can add these two to the display I'm working on.





Thanks,





Steve

That one with the Griffin tag should be verrry old. I have three BR2s, all red. Got two of them off Ebay years ago before they began to get so pricy!

 

[dmathieu]

I came across a couple of "beehive" lights about 10 years ago, when I first wanted to begin my collection. One is just the glass and the second one is on a metal base (no bottom - thus no electrical base) with a plaque that states "The Griffin Lamp Company No. 360, Hamilton Ohio U.S.A."




I've been thinking of trying to find bottoms I can use for a night light bulb or similar to I can add these two to the display I'm working on.





Thanks,





Steve

Yep, the first is a Griffin Model 360, and the 2nd is a lens for a Yankee, I believe.

 

[DalmatProd]

Yep, the first is a Griffin Model 360, and the 2nd is a lens for a Yankee, I believe.

Thanks for letting me know about the second dome! I had no idea where it came from!





Steve

 

[dmathieu]

Here is one of Austin / Whelen's incandescent flashing 360degree lights. Model PO-12

 

[dmathieu]

Another Whelen "beehive" light.

 

[Captain4164]

I got one of them. Its been sitting in our shop for months and months. Dunno how we got it, and no one else does either. Since we don't use IC lights, no one knows where it came from, so my mechanic boss told me to make it disappear.

 

[Skip Goulet]

I got one of them. Its been sitting in our shop for months and months. Dunno how we got it, and no one else does either. Since we don't use IC lights, no one knows where it came from, so my mechanic boss told me to make it disappear.

So now you're a magician, too, huh! :yes:

 

[hyperjohnny]

I dug through my pictures of the shop and ran across these...

 

[hyperjohnny]

Digging deeper I forgot about this wooden bar with 3 of these mounted to it leaning in the corner...


The second picture shows a few of those K-D lenses in red/amber/blue. I know I had a box full of those somewhere...


Someday I should inventory all this crap. I'd probably be floored with all the boxes of stuff I'm sure I forgotten about over all these years...


Then there's the 2 I just got a couple of weeks ago, next to siren, of course.

 

[hyperjohnny]

OOPS! Found 2 more...


And a Federal 141H

 

[Captain4164]

So now you're a magician, too, huh! :yes:

He said make it go away cuz we keep teasing all the Chiefs we are gonna mount it and hook it up on their vehicles. They all hate those IC lights. Each time a Chiefs vehicle comes in the shop, we put it on weird places and take pics to send to them about where we mounted it

 

[tsquale]

Here is one of Austin / Whelen's incandescent flashing 360degree lights.

Dibs when you sell this one!


You all have some very nice lights.

 

[dmathieu]

Dibs when you sell this one!

You all have some very nice lights.

OK, and thanks!

 

[Skip Goulet]

Digging deeper I forgot about this wooden bar with 3 of these mounted to it leaning in the corner...
The second picture shows a few of those K-D lenses in red/amber/blue. I know I had a box full of those somewhere...


Someday I should inventory all this crap. I'd probably be floored with all the boxes of stuff I'm sure I forgotten about over all these years...


Then there's the 2 I just got a couple of weeks ago, next to siren, of course.

Have you figured out yet what the siren is?

 

[hyperjohnny]

Have you figured out yet what the siren is?

I'm leaning toward a Sireno. It has all the earmarks...

 

[Skip Goulet]

I'm leaning toward a Sireno. It has all the earmarks...

Earmarks, huh! Is it that loud...or have you tried it? BTW, in those extra domes you have, do you have a blue one for a BR2?

 

[hyperjohnny]

Earmarks, huh! Is it that loud...or have you tried it? BTW, in those extra domes you have, do you have a blue one for a BR2?

I have tried it and it works flawlessly. It's not as loud as I thought it would be, though.


I don't have any BR2 domes in blue. I believe you can still get the plastic versions from North american or maybe the industrial side of Federal may still offer glass for high-temperature applications... Don't know for sure. If they do, I'm sure they're un-godly expensive...

 

[dmathieu]

Here is a model 1946 truck with a pretty accurate looking Griffin Model 360 "beehive" on it.

 

[Captain4164]

I had a CDF one of those, thats what my truck is. I never paid attention to the light on top of the CDF Power Wagon. Its in storage right now, so I can't post a pic of it. But those Power Wagon models are plenty, and any of them that are a service type replica all have those kinda lights on em

 

[dmathieu]

It would bee interesting to verify the model of the light.

 

[Captain4164]

Ok, Ill get a pic of it.

 

[dmathieu]

Thank you!

 

[Captain4164]

Here ya go Dan. Excuse the dust. Looks like the same light. Which is kinda funny, cuz were those really around in the 40s?

 

[dmathieu]

It does look like an old Griffin Model 360, and yes, I believe they were around back into the late 30s.


Thanks for taking the time to get the pics!


It would be interesting to see a real one.

 

[Captain4164]

Cool, I didn't know that. I don't think CDF ever used those lights, as we used to have Power Wagons and they had two lights mounted to the A pillars, one flashed and one was solid. Don't think we woulda ever used those. In my thread about my truck itself, I posted a pic of an original CDF Power Wagon. http://elightbars.org/forums/f18/federal-jr-beacon-ray-31207/ Post #4

 

[Captain4164]

Heres another one Dan

 

[dmathieu]

Federal brochure with Scatter Rays BR-1, and BR-2


Griffin 1951 brochure


Federal Scat-O-Ray BR2S


Carpenter brochure 1956

 

[dmathieu]

Do-Ray Model 660 with blue glass lens.


I believe this is a rebadged Federal Sign And Signal BR2.

 

[dakarm34]

I have a red plastic dome one but I can't find a mfg.

 

[dmathieu]

I have a red plastic dome one but I can't find a mfg.

Picture?

 

[dmathieu]

Just grabbed this beautiful Griffin Model 360 light with special off-white painted base.


This has a very vintage single fluted perfect lens with no marks or chips.


This is my second off-white base, and my 4th perfect single fluted lens, now 2 red, 1 amber, and 1 split 1/2 red 1/2 amber. All are pictured in this thread.


These single fluted lenses give off an amazingly bright and concentrated beam, compared to the more common, newer, double fluted design.

 

[dakarm34]

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Here's the one I was referring to that has no labels just numbers on the top of the dome

 

[dmathieu]

That is a K-D Lamp Company Model 876 "beehive" light.

 

[Skip Goulet]

That is a K-D Lamp Company "beehive" light.

When I was a little kid the predominantly black funeral home had a 1951 Chevy Sedan-delivery as their ambulance. The unit had a pair of single-faced driving lights painted red mounted on the front corners along with a single-faced red light that resembles the Carpenter light pictured above in the center. Behind those lights was either an early Federal BR2 on a KD light..not sure which. The original siren was a Federal 78 doubletone siren with the PropelloRay light, which the guy replaced with a little VL siren, because the larger siren "used too much juice". Go figure! He never understood why people wouldn't pull over for him after the siren switch! :no:

 

[dmathieu]

Just picked this one up!

 

[Captain4164]

Really like that last one


Hey Dan, for the most part, do these lights single flash or flash kinda like strobes, a pulse flash? Did they ever make em in 6v? I would assume… if they actually had em on the Power Wagon models, most of them are 6v...

 

[stansdds]

I'm not Dan, but I do know that back in the day, most sirens, lights and beacons were available in 6 and 12 VDC. The "beehive" and "jelly jar" lights were typically on a flasher, very simple, on and off pattern, although a pair of lights could be wired to an alternating flasher to give a wig-wag effect.

 

[dmathieu]

I'm not Dan, but I do know that back in the day, most sirens, lights and beacons were available in 6 and 12 VDC. The "beehive" and "jelly jar" lights were typically on a flasher, very simple, on and off pattern, although a pair of lights could be wired to an alternating flasher to give a wig-wag effect.

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