Found this in a bunch of old parts from a closed down dealership. Predominately Chryslers and International. It has 12V and L56 on one stamping, and3.7635 md also stamped or rather cast into it. Don't know if it's a speed controlled switch for a overdrive or a switch to shift a fluid drive trans like in the early 50s. Can anyone tell me what it is?
The fluid drive transmissions had a governor screwed into the housing, not a speedo cable attached gizmo like that. I've never seen one of these. Interesting.
I have one in an old 63 Volkswagen , when the car goes backwards it turns the back up light on . Go forward and it turns it off. This was a VW option since back up lights didn't become available until the mid to late 60's at which point there was a switch in the transaxle.
That's possibly it. I think the dealership also handled a line of foreign cars also. Simca ,was it was sold to Chrysler in the late 60s
That could be it. I drove a school bus in high school in the late 60's. We had Fords, Chevys, and a couple Internationals. School buses in NC were governed at 35mph back then. The Chevys and Fords had carburetor based governors, and were all gutless. The Internationals didn't appear to have a governed type carb, or at least not one that looked like the ones on the Fords or Chevys, and they had full power from zero up to the governed speed. When they got to 35mph, the power went flat instantly as if something had turned a switch on or off.
1 1/2 and 2 ton trucks with 2 speed rear axles, if they had the electric shift, used a device like that to keep the speedo at the right reading so it read the correct MPH.
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