About Us – Traffic Wands & A Lot of Other Lighted Stuff!
Knight Kit was established in 2005, we specialise in the design and development of battery powered lighting for safety and the control of traffic – vehicles, construction plant, aircraft and people.
The first product we designed was an economical blue personal safety light for the emergency services, so that police would benefit from an illuminated blue safety light when working in the hours of darkness. Alternative products were quite expensive as well as bulky so we came up with a twist and redeveloped some already well proven flashing lights making them suited to the police.
Historically there was a certain amount of resistance within some police services to adopt PPE that puts a blue flashing light on a police officer, presumably because of the perceived comedic value this presents to the media? However it has steadily become more accepted that PPE which helps keep a police officer (or emergency services worker) safe is worth a small investment like the KB03 Blue Police Safety Light
Klickfast docks and studs are used widely throughout the emergency services to attach police kit such as Airwaves (Sempura & Motorola) radio systems and other policing essentials.
We stock a small range of the most popular accessories for the convenience of our customer base with many police, ambulance and fire services been direct customers as well as individuals who can buy directly from our website. For individual police officers purchasing through our site please note the postage costs, we only charge what it costs making no profit on postage so sometimes best to build up a shopping list before ordering to get best value from the postal service.
Adding ranges of other battery powered safety lights was a natural progression and we consequently developed traffic control batons and traffic control wands along with other illuminated beacons to supplement the safety of police and emergency services initially, but then commercial organisations in the highways, traffic management and construction sectors.
Our red traffic wand is widely used in construction and highway maintenance, it became a standard for banksman training courses which led to the developments of our banksman traffic wand which has safety pressure switch functionality that instantly changes from red to green with the appliance of light pressure and back to red again when released.
Latest in the line of emergency services focussed products is our rechargeable battery powered LED hazard warning lights – which include our own Knight Pod. Supplied in a case of 6 as well as individually, these rechargeable, robust LED road flares are supplied with chargers and are available in yellow, amber, blue, red, white and green variations.
Different models have different operating modes, sequential light patterns and synchronised flashing patterns and are suited to a wide range of sectors including police, military and civilian operators such as the construction, highway and aviation sectors.
With 6 in a case which weighs less than 3.2 kgs, emergency services personnel can deploy these in series directing traffic around obstacles, creating safe passageways and cordons, even demarking landing zones for helicopter landing.
With our traffic cone mounting adapter the road flares can also be traffic cone mounted presenting a warning beacon at an elevated height.
We have a number of colour options that are suited to different working environments, obviously blue for the police and fire rescue services but also the white KB55W White Knight Pod Case for specialised road haulage, green for Air aviation and red and yellow for various construction and commercial uses
A strong magnetic base allows them to be firmly attached to metallic surfaces. The clever design also means that the magnet does not directly contact with the surface and so will not scratch paintwork if deployed on vehicles etc…
The Knight Pod comes in several variants, Police Pod is the blue version whilst there are yellow/amber warning lights, and green and red warning lights available for the civilian sector where they are widely used as a low level warning lights in factories and large work places.
More recent additions to the range have included synchronised traffic cone taper lights, often referred to in the trade as synchro lamps. These OEM traffic lamps challenge the dominance of a few established lamps manufacturers providing an alternative synchro lamp with similar performance characteristics but at a much more competitive price point. We appreciate that lamps get broken and damaged regularly and so have priced them at a level that will make a strong economic argument for trying another brand that conforms to EN12352 standards.
We stock a wider range of products not just limited to LED lighting, such as Klickfast fittings manufactured by Peter Jones (ILG), which we hope saves our customers having to trawl the internet for items they frequently require.
Certain items with blue light output are restricted for sale to police and other emergency services but apart from these and unless otherwise stated, anyone is welcome to purchase from our website.
Who we supply
Knight Kit supply many UK police services which include the London Metropolitan police, Police Scotland, Humberside police authority, Devon and Dorset police, Essex police, West Midlands police and others.
You may glimpse our police lights on many of the reality Police series on TV either the body worn PPE lights seen in Brighton’s police ‘Night Coppers’ or our police Knight Pods seen frequently in ‘Motorway Cops’ placed on top of traffic cones. For more about our products TV and film appearance click here for a bit of trivia!
We also are suppliers to the MOD, RAF, Army Air Corps, UK based elements of the USAF with RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall users of our robust aviation marshalling wands and Knight Pod Police Beacons, SARTU and NATO providing with traffic control lights and other warning beacons around the globe.