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- Tail Lamp, circa 1907 - Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.
- circa 1907
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Tail Lamp, circa 1907
Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.
- Automobile Tail Lamp, circa 1906 - The first automobile head and tail lamps used kerosene -- a fuel used in lighting fixtures found on horse-drawn vehicles. These early lights illuminated dark roads or generated a visible safety feature. This brass, kerosene tail lamp, made be the R. E. Deitz Company, warned approaching vehicles that an automobile was ahead.
- circa 1906
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Automobile Tail Lamp, circa 1906
The first automobile head and tail lamps used kerosene -- a fuel used in lighting fixtures found on horse-drawn vehicles. These early lights illuminated dark roads or generated a visible safety feature. This brass, kerosene tail lamp, made be the R. E. Deitz Company, warned approaching vehicles that an automobile was ahead.
- Dietz Dainty Tail Lamp, circa 1908 - Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.
- circa 1908
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Dietz Dainty Tail Lamp, circa 1908
Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.
- Atwood Model No. 6 Tail Lamp, circa 1910 -
- circa 1910
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Atwood Model No. 6 Tail Lamp, circa 1910
- Dietz Dainty Tail Lamp, circa 1905 - Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.
- circa 1905
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Dietz Dainty Tail Lamp, circa 1905
Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.
- Kerosene Automobile Tail Lamp, 1917-1924 - Early automobile lights used kerosene -- a fuel used in lighting fixtures found on horse-drawn vehicles. The John W. Brown Manufacturing Company made this tail lamp for Ford in the late 1910s and early 1920s at a time when electric lights were more common. The lamp's red lens warned approaching vehicles that an automobile was ahead. Its clear side lens illuminated the license plate.
- 1917-1924
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Kerosene Automobile Tail Lamp, 1917-1924
Early automobile lights used kerosene -- a fuel used in lighting fixtures found on horse-drawn vehicles. The John W. Brown Manufacturing Company made this tail lamp for Ford in the late 1910s and early 1920s at a time when electric lights were more common. The lamp's red lens warned approaching vehicles that an automobile was ahead. Its clear side lens illuminated the license plate.
- Tail Lamp, circa 1910 - Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.
- circa 1910
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Tail Lamp, circa 1910
Taillights were not a standard fixture on early automobiles. Only when cars and roads improved -- and drivers braved the darkness -- did this safety feature become a necessity. Early taillights resembled carriage lamps found on horse-drawn vehicles. This kerosene-fueled tail lamp -- cars usually had only one -- used a red lens to warn approaching vehicles. A clear lens illuminated the license plate or back step.