Squire's voitures

[fried onions]

I think they made them like this deliberately. On most of the older Euro tat I had (and have) they were (are) only really visible by night, unlike the red ones in the old yanks that burn a hole into one's retina.

Yes indeed, hence the change to a blue lens. In older red ones tat, dimming is effected by various means, or not at all as you found out. The MO had a resistance-wound lamp unit, whilst the Humber's is full brightness but shielded to allow only a pin-head amount of light out.

[Hooli]

If you can't tell you're on full beam at night then you shouldn't be driving. Cars used to be built with this in mind.

[Junkman]

Flog your newfangled tosh and get yourself a proper motor.

[mercrocker]

The Cowley has a similarly faint high beam indicator. It just reminds you, like a gently coughing butler, that Sir has currently selected High Beam. It is also coloured red, just like the only other warning light - that for a live ignition circuit. Of course, Sir knows when he has the ignition on and when he has main beam switched - no need for colour coding.

[captain_70s]

The Doloshite has the same "I can't believe it's a light" high beam warning lamp. Only ever visible if it's pitch black, although at least isn't dazzling like most moderns...

The worst I've encountered was in a Vauxhall Vivaro which required me to drive with a hand over the light so I could actually see anything other than a supernova of blue.

[fried onions]

The reason it drew my attention is because of the facility to flash the main beams. I have to pull the column stalk toward me, and then a little further as resistance is felt, to make the circuit. With a dim tell-tale it is not always readily apparent if I pulled the stalk far enough if I flash the mains in daylight, and also lends weight to SiC's theory of the switch assembly being a modern wank replacement.
Of course the older cars are not troubled by this because they do not have the facility to flash the main beams. But on the ones I modified to do so, the tell-tale leaves me in no doubt.

[fried onions]

In what resembles a scene from a Hitchcock movie, there was no mistaking the main beams being 'on' in my old shite station wagon.

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[Junkman]

If it weren't for the control light you'd have never guessed the headlights were on at all.
Wonderful.

[ghosty]

As papped on Facebook in late July:

[fried onions]

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A simple fault - bad connection in the wiring.

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I ordered a few parts to sort the easy stuff, adding value to the car for resale. This is the wrong window winder handle.

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I ordered a new one from Moss. They are BL parts bin, along with the door pull handles. The Aggy uses the very same of both.
I am getting handy with the wob now, it really is excellent stuff for jobs like this.

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Now, it just happens that Talbot Alpine White is a great match for this MG. Can you honestly tell the difference?

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More liberal use of wob is planned for the areas where the paint has gone like this. God knows what caused this, most likely poor preparation - much of the panels were replaced. The nearside A-post and door suffer too.

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I fitted the new window winder handle but took the door card off first to ascertain why the winder didn't wind.

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Fuck. I tried tapping the glass back in the channel with the old striking implement to no avail. It's too corroded and gone. If it's a major expense to renew then it can be the next owner's problem. It looks like a ball ache to replace. Driver's side window is still very hard to wind down and up despite liberal application of lubricant.