appleton 45a foglights

I found this pair of appleton electric fog lights in my 99 year old aunts garage after she p***ed. they work too! the model is 45-a they are 6 and a half inches. looks like they are a bumper bracket mount. i was wondering if anyone new the era of the light... any info would be cool thanks hambers!

 

Either a mid to late 30s or a 1940s item, I'd say.
With those brackets, possibly used before the advent of gravel
shields behind the bumpers.

 

How cool, are they going on your great avatar? Those are so super fine. Great history behind them as well, belonging to you Aunt. Congrats man, those lens are smokin. Congrats! ~Sololobo~

 

Thanks for the replys guys!!

 

Here are some before and after photos of my set of Appletons, model 41. guy said they came off a 1940 ford.

 

beautiful lights great find, I would love to hang those on the wall.

 

yeah, I think they will stay on the shelf for a while.

 

those are mid to late 30s.

 

I had some of those on a stock '46 Ford in 1966. I don't know if it came with them new but I was the 3rd owner. We have hella thick "tule" fog in the valley every winter. It had gravel shields too. It had push bars on the front bumper and a spotlight on the driver side that came with it. That stuff was junked pretty soon after I got the car. If I had known 44 years later people would think that stuff was cool of would be a hit at an "auto swap meet" I would have hung on to it.

 

Hang um on a wall????????? Heck man I wanna hang um on my Hudson.

 

If I had something decent to put it on, it would be on it, but in the meantime I would put them up to enjoy. clarified.

 

if they are for sale let me no.

 

*****in. Love old fog lights. A guy in my club just gave me a killer BLC 5 3/4" fog that's never been on a car.

 

ON THE SHELF???? Put it on something

 

Ya, those should be on a car not sitting on a shelf. Having two lets you have the option of running one or two.

Frank