Hot Rods Gauges/panel ID Needed

Picked this gauge panel with 3 Stewart Warner Gauges. First was this an after marker panel or a stock panel? Car or Truck? Year aprox.? Any info on the key switch? Era of gauges? The 5000 RPM Tach looks to be cable driven. Any and all information would be appreciated!
Gauge Panel is 15 1/2 inches x 5 1/2 inches
RPM Gauge bezel size 2 3/4 inches
Small Gauges 2 1/4 inches
Empty Ho;e is 2 1/2 inches

 

Its out of a Criss craft boat. @Austin kays has one just like it

 

Thanks porkn******! Is Austin kays using it in a hot rod? Have you seen these panels used in hotrods? It looks to be the perfect size!

 

Hi. Switch also appears to be same to early 50's MG. That is ignition and the handle turns on the head or park lights on the MG. MG also had a 7,000 tach. Jimmie

 

His in on the shelf but it could get used in his A bone easy enough. They have been popular in the past.

 

Not just Chris Craft. These panels were marketed by Stewart Warner as the "Ensign" panel for any number of marine and heavy equipment applications. Here's a picture of the 1945 Stewart Warner Marine Products catalog (borrowed from the IG of greyghostgmc):

 

Thanks Rainier******! The H.A.M.B. is the best for information!!

 

Interesting info above, where S/W calls the gauge panel the "Ensign." Flash forward to the 1950's/1960's where they used the same name for the next "Ensign" version.

 

Johnny Yuma used one in his hot rod.

 

It looks like the tach has a P10 stamped on the back. That would make it an October 1946.

I once came upon a salvage yard full of very old construction equipment (graders, dozers, trucks, etc), and spent an hour looking at all the dash panels. The only one I found worth saving was a panel just like the OP shows, in a super-huge Osh Kosh truck. The yard owner wouldn't sell just the panel, and the whole truck was way too large for me to haul home. Probably still there.

 

What a cool pic! Thanks for posting!

 

When did Stewart Warner stop making the Crescent Point gauges? I would need a water temperature gauge to make it complete?

 

The rear mount gauges like you have went away by the late 40’s and/or early ‘50s when their deluxe (wings logo) and standard (crescent/tulip needle) lines went to front mounts.

 

let me dig mine out its much different. Mine is super 60s nautical

 

Theres mine

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Austin, those individual pod segments can be stacked together to make as long of a dashboard as you want. I've seen boat dashboards with those all the way across.

 

Really? Ill keep that in mind thought they were pretty cool

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