From: R. A. Moir aka RAM (cyclopsram@starband.net)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 15:42:14 PST
Yup, you are right.. they were an aftermarket type thing which was used on
some oddball stuff like street sweepers, the trucks, not ordnance and kinda
nice, but not self cancelling.. I must have had 3 or 4 trucks thru the years
with them thru the years... Usually retrofitted to MV so I chopped em off
as quick as I could and used the old hand signals which I had to learn to
get my Driver's License in 1959. I have a M275A2 now which still has the
original Sparton controller with no self cancelling and the big 20 wire
flasher box on the engine side of the firewall... Also has no 4 way
capability... The M715 trucks came for some time with this type
controller...RAM
----- Original Message -----
From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 18:22
Subject: [MV] Turn signal switch
>
> Greetings:
>
> Many years ago, I saw a military 3/4 ton dodge truck with an unusual
> turn-signal controller. At the time, I was not yet a mil-veh enthusiast,
so
> as a result I didn't take a good look or try to determine the
manufacturer.
> The controller was:
>
> 1 dash-mounted, plastic.
>
> 2 rectangular box, square buttons on front.
>
> 3 approx. 3" by 5" faceplate, by 3" depth.
>
> 4 Had two buttons, one each for left and right, which ( I think) were
> "juke boxed" i.e. mutually-cancelling. Maybe these were green. Maybe they
> lit up.
>
> 5 Had one (possibly) red button, that was the 4-way flasher button
Maybe
> this lit up.
>
> This could have been a civilian controller, (possibly Signal-Stat) but I
> have never seen another, in person, or in any catalogue. Any former
> Signal-Stat employees in the audience?
>
> After all these years, it still bugs me, and with this talk about the new,
> improved light switch, I figured that maybe now is the time to ask about
it.
> Sorry about the memory vagueness, but I have CRAFT.
>
> Arthur P. Bloom
> www.M35products.com
>
>
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