Vintage Olive Cone Christmas Lights

In this video, we examine a vintage set of 12 Olive Cone Lights and have a brief look at a set of 12 Figural and Novelty lights.
We also take a stab at the history of these kinds of lights, as well as a look into the archive and dig out some photos of other similar examples.
Please note, we are not historians and the history of such lights is not well documented, most of the information is from personal history and speculation.
We are not qualified to fix any kind of electrical equipment, we are just enthusiasts, always get your electrical items checked by a qualified electrician.
This is the long winded version of this topic, shorter and condensed version of the video will be uploaded tomorrow with the war and peace history lesson edited out.
Link is here, ready for when it goes live.
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Welcome to the Vintage Christmas Lights UK TH-cam Channel.
I hope you enjoyed this new video!
Our aim is to provide videos featuring the classic sets of Christmas Lights that were sold in the UK, how to fix and restore them, guides, tips, hints and guides.
Plus videos of unique lights in operation and deep dives into our extensive Christmas Light Archive.
If you have any interesting Christmas Light videos that we could add to are TH-cam channel to archive for everyone, please leave a comment below with a link to the video, and it will be added.
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If you have any photos, part numbers, videos or any other kind of other interesting information or feedback, our email is below.
Alternatively, if you are interested in these kinds of lights, then check out the Christmas Light Archive Website, we are not affiliated with this site, but we do use the fantastic database, check it out!
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A little 'light' history.
The early 90s were the beginning of the end for 'classic' style Christmas light sets, new manufacturing and safety laws saw the delicate thinner cables replaced with thick and bulky black ones for 240v sets of lights, making them look cumbersome and chunky.
NOMA still produce some 'classic style' sets of lights, identical to the late 80s lights, but unfortunately with this thick cable.
Over the years, Christmas lights have been replaced with characterless, shadeless sets of lights, then eventually we got the domination of LED lights.
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of modern lights that I do like, and I will try to do some videos about them too.
We do hope that one of the legacy firms like PIFCO or NOMA bring back the classic style lights, perhaps in low voltage LED form in sets of 20 and 40, and possibly 60-100 too with the old style shades, a mix and match option would be brilliant.
What do you think ?
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[@thetoycollectorofseville6428]

Do you have any more musical light sets? Those are my favorite because I can enjoy them as a blind person. The ones with just lights are boring.

[@vcluk]

Yes, we have a video just for you on Christmas Eve!

[@MrChristmas1970]

great video! these long ones are much better than the shorts. All looking like a Christmas dream!

[@vcluk]

Thank you, had to whittle down an hour of footage lol.

[@leecraddock3079]

Lovely set of lights I remember these from your last live I really do like the designs of the fruit bulbs must have took some crafting to make those 🎉🎉

[@vcluk]

Would love to know how the made them myself.

[@KN23124]

Cool video, altough at the end, it lasts on black screen for several minutes...

[@vcluk]

Upload Error, all sorted now! :D