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

289 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

778 posts

183 months

Thursday 29th January
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Ford Consul Mk 2


DavePanda

6,795 posts

258 months

Thursday 29th January
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Or Mk1 Zephyr


DoctorX

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191 months

Thursday 29th January
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Reliant Regal?

mikef

6,158 posts

275 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

5,892 posts

173 months

Friday 30th January
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Austin A40?

Lester H

4,031 posts

129 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

16,917 posts

228 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

19,334 posts

245 months

Tuesday 3rd February
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Ford Anglia 105E

MichaelDelaney

21 posts

133 months

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