Pre 80s UK cars with large half-moon speedometers?
Pre 80s UK cars with large half-moon speedometers?
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406dogvan

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5,329 posts

291 months

Thursday 29th January
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When I was a kid, my Dad built me a steering wheel/gear shifter setup - I wore-it-out over the following years...

He sourced bits from a local scrapyard (North East England) - this would be mid 70s - and the centrepiece was a dashboard binnacle.

It contained a half-moon speedometer (single needle anchored bottom middle) and an odometer and not much else

The casing was rounded at the top and that was clearly the 'top of the dash' so I suspect tea shelfery was involved perhaps?

To this day I've never found-out what it came out of - someone told me is was a Morris but I've never matched-it-up to one I've seen and Google has no clues

Obviously no pictures - I'm old enough to pre-date photography!!

Any ideas - I guess it COULD be American but whatever it was, it was scrapped in the mid-70s so...

p.s. not a P6 dash - too 'short' in height and that's a moving needle rather than a sweeping one IIRC?

FarmerJim

808 posts

185 months

Thursday 29th January
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Ford Consul Mk 2


DavePanda

6,814 posts

260 months

Thursday 29th January
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Or Mk1 Zephyr


DoctorX

8,093 posts

193 months

Thursday 29th January
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Reliant Regal?

mikef

6,158 posts

277 months

Thursday 29th January
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Could have sourced it from a motorcycle? A number of British bikes had Smiths D-shaped speedos

bristolracer

5,921 posts

175 months

Friday 30th January
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Austin A40?

Lester H

4,182 posts

131 months

Friday 30th January
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1955 Ford Prefect 100e. Mounted on steering column but later changed to more modern / bland twin round dials.

crofty1984

17,048 posts

230 months

Tuesday 3rd February
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mikef said:
Could have sourced it from a motorcycle? A number of British bikes had Smiths D-shaped speedos
Bantam has one I think. And probably the rights "scale" for a kid's toy.

Sardonicus

19,393 posts

247 months

Tuesday 3rd February
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Ford Anglia 105E

MichaelDelaney

22 posts

135 months

Wednesday 4th February
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Humber Hawk from the 1950's ?