For the people too far away,from Lex cable used for solar power installations looks and feels right,Its black and comes in various sizes I use a heavy one battery up to the headlight and a lighter one elsewhere,just abrade the markings with fine paper, As I always have some left over from a 100meter roll when we install panels so I use that , its copperwire and tin plated multi strand perfect for our bikes, solar wiring off the roof to inverter is always DC, so it will carry six or 12 volts easy, and as lex says heat shrink colour coding works brilliantly , better than the stretch on rubber stuff
I was lucky enough to have a complete (but degraded) harness on my 16H. I used vinyl cable abraded with 'Scotchbrite' and it looks very similar to rubber. As modern insulation is thinner than the old rubber, I had no concerns about the rating of the cable and wanted to replicate the external diameters of the original installation.
There were two main sizes of cable in the WD16H loom. This is a copy and paste of information that I passed on some time ago.
"Diameters are external including insulation. They give an idea though of where the heavy stuff was used. Diameters are approximate and may be slightly less (0.2mm or so).
The main feature of the loom is the length of rubber tube (bicycle inner tube !) running from inside the headlamp along the frame top tube.
Mine is 950mm long and 15mm diameter. It contains three cables - Battery to Ammeter, switch to tail light and switch to 'A'.
These are all 5mm insulation OD
Ammeter to horn and horn to horn push are also 5mm OD.
Main switch to pilot bulb - 5mm
Dynamo to 'F' and 'D' - 4mm
'E' to earth - 4mm
All the rest seem to be 4mm except that I found a short length with an eyelet on one end (internal headlamp earth maybe ? ) - 3mm OD.
The wiring from the dipswitch was a 3-core multicore with an OD of 9mm. I used standard black round modern 3-core cable. Scuffed with Scotchbrite, it looks fine".
I must have a note somewhere of what I actually used.
Although they don't appear to be shown in the wiring diagram, there is always a connector at the tail lamp, especially handy for the drop off or hinge up mudguard tail piece.... On an M20 I think there is also one on the main battery lead above the battery.
The connector is covered by a slide over piece of rubber tube. Here's an original on my James ML. Ron
I have manages to source the wire locally in Hong Kong so I will buy this end instead, it will save on the postage as well, they actually have 108 rolls in stock if you run out in the UK.