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http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1989/uksi_19891796_en_1.htm
depending on if you want to be legal or not!
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April 30th, 2010, 11:06 pm
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Could you call it a "work lamp" and get away with it ???? ;)

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"Movement of lamps and reflectors
12.—(1) Save as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road any vehicle to which, or to any load or equipment of which, there is fitted a lamp, reflector or marking which is capable of being moved by swivelling, deflecting or otherwise while the vehicle is in motion.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of-
(f) a work lamp;

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April 30th, 2010, 11:19 pm
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If I've read all the legal-ese right that means that you can have a single fog lamp, but if your car was registered after 1986? the lamp needs to have an approval mark of some sort. So does that then rule out buying a 'classic' lamp of ebay, which is what I'd have done?

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Neil wrote:
I reckon Martin had an Appleton?

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sorry for the memory lapse, but i found it recently and realised it was an old Raydot, wish it was an Appleton

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