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Cycle Dynamos, some years ago, were required by Law to have a Hard, Solid Red lamp to accompany the Dymamo Rear Red Lamp. The reason was because the Tail Lamp went out if the bicycle was stopped. Eveready provided many additional Tail Lamps which require 2x U2 Batteries (D cells as they are now called) Nothing about the Front Lamp at the time.
I don't know if the Law has been changed since.
Generally Laws, these days are not fully enforced, for example Parking of Cars. Some weird & wonderful devices, such as parking lights were used. The Highway code still says that cars should be parked overnight facing the normal direction of traffic flow & reflectors were fitted the the rear of motor vehicles to reflect back road users lights etc.
I remember this well as one Christmas time, my father-in law was finned, because he was on thw wrong side of the Street, along with about forty others parked up for the night. In fact only about four people were correctly parked in his Street.
To-day you are most likely to be run over by a bicycle when walking along a foot path. In King Street, South Shields there is a Paved zone running all the way along fron Anderson Street to the Market Place. This has in many places the Standard NO Cycling sign in a few places (White Backgraoung with Outer Red Ring & bicycle shown in blach. The Street incidentally Is One Way only, Ha Ha. Ive Seen Police Cars & Police Cyclists travelling in the wrong direction along this (No Cycling Street). I've even walked, deliberately Walked in Front of a Police car travelling in the wrong direction down this Street, until he honked his horn. Whereupon I asked him why he was going the wrong way down the Street. He only Glared at me. I could understand if he had his blue lights flashing or sirens blaring. I appears to me that the Police are not required to enforce the Law, but break it to suit themselves.
TRW
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