I think you may also have posted on the Yahoo forum, in which you say that you have 10 to 20 amps going somewhere. Also that you have a low acid level in the battery.
I presume the 10 to 20 amps is going into the battery
If so it seems to me that you may have two problems. A duff battery and a maladjusted regulator.
Changing the battery is easy, changing the regulator is relatively easy but isn't really the solution as the new regulator should be set up on the car, even though it's apparently new out of the box. It's a bit like buying a woodworking chisel - it might be brand new but it will still need sharpening. In this case the regulator needs to be tweaked to match your Dynamo and battery, both of which have their individual characteristics.
If you know somebody skilled in the art of setting up the Lucas regulator get them to do it. They'll make it look easy, which it isn't.
But I think you're in Germany, if so it seems unlikely that you will be able to find that particular talent. I can't immediately think of anybody in the uk either, now, with that particular skill. No doubt they exist, but finding them would be the problem
So what I suggest you do is to secure a copy of a workshop manual for a contemporary British car, a Haynes manual for a Morris Minor perhaps, and follow its instructions as well as you can. If you let me have an email address I can scan the relevant pages from that manual and email them to you. The only really, really, difficult bit is "it is vital that the adjustment is made within 30 seconds of starting the engine". The easy bit suggests that if all else fails then change the unit. But then you should still set up the "new" one
But before you start on all this do just check that all the screws securing the wiring to and from the regulator unit are tight. Copper creeps over time when under pressure and you may find that some wires are now virtually open circuit.
Good luck
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