Lucas lighting kit 1920s

  If you owned a motorcycle in England in the 1920s, and wanted lights, there was a acetylene gas lighting kit available from Halfords (a motoring department store) for the equivalent of approximately £60 which gave you barely adequate lighting, or if you were feeling flush Lucas made an electric setup consisting of the above SS48 headlight and MT110 taillight and the magdyno illustrated below. If I made the translation from old British money £10 17s 6d correctly, that's about £600 (or about $1100 Canadian). I expect most motorcyclists just stayed home at night.