Stewart Warner, Pictorial Timeline??

Does anyone have a link or a file(pic) of a Stewart Warner gauge timeline?
With all the choices and variations Id like to see one.
Ive got a pretty good idea of the breakdown but Id like to be sure!
I did a search but each thread tends to deal with 1 style at a time...
Thanks for any input!

 

roadsters.com has good information on SW gauges.

http://www.roadsters.com/sw/

 

Yup!! Roadsters.com has about the best info available in one place.


I wouldn't mind seeing an all encomp***ing SW thread with gauges and their original applications, time lines and general info when they were used.


SNIFF SNIFF.....do I smell a Mother of all SW thread coming on?

 

I have a 5" SW Curved gl*** crescent needle tach that I'd love to know what it originally came in. It was probably some sort of machinery but this one goes to 8k I think so that doesn't make sense.

 

i have some nice 2 5/8 mechanical oil,temp gauges i,m saving for the next car,they are starting to get hard to find.........

 

Yeah they are!!! I need to find a matching set for my tach and I won a set of Auburns on EEEEEbay only to find out that the reserve wasn't met. Damn it.

 

Ill sign over the rights to you on this one...

 

Let me put something together and maybe I'll start something early next week. I'd like to approach it with some thought and intelligence.....and new leaf being turned over for me

 

what do you mean, turning over a new leaf????

 

Approaching things with some thought instead of my knee jerk responses is new for me haha!!

 

By early next week??

 

Let me know, i can help out with some pics of stuff etc etc i kinda like gauges too.

 

Great idea Slick...I'll be watching this one !!!!

 

A Stewart-Warner "timeline" would look like a bowl of spaghetti. SW made some noodles that are so long they wrap around and around, while others are short, only to be modified a little bit so that they look almost like the original noodle.

Good luck to the guy who wants to ***emble an all-encomp***ing SW Story. Even trying to explain the gauges we hot rodders care most about would take a hundred pages. From the smooth-bezel standards and 2-5/8ths, to the rear-mount "Auburn" style. From the winged stepped-bezel, to the big logo stepped-bezel, to the small logo stepped-bezel, to the greenline stepped-bezel. And don't forget the Twin Blue. This is just scratching the surface.

 

The only thing I found incorrect on Roadsters.com was the info about the SW Twin BLue Gauges.He shows a pair of "Twin Blue" gauges but is talking about "Greenline" The Twin Blue came out in 1958 and stopped in 1966.The Greenline replaced the Twin Blue and came out in 1965.

 

Ya, youre right...forget it. Ill just go start a thread about my girlfriend's dead dog that just found a 4 door 54 dodge in a river bed...

 

No, don't forget it. I'd still like to see somebody attempt. I love pics of nice SW gauges.

 

^^^Oh I forgot my smileys

 

Yeah do it!

 

I would certainly try and help. I sort of have a bunch of stuff. Did you ever see the Stewart Warner story in TRJ 11?

 

Roasters.com is full of missing information on the early SW gauges. He doesn't even distinguish between military applications and offered speed equipment. Terry Seaholm in Tacoma, WA probably knows a lot more info on early SW gauges. He sells them constantly. I just saw him again at Turlock. He is on here, but does not post often. WEBSTER is his name on here.

 

This is a great idea.

 

Any pics of the Dodge and the Dog ???? Before he was dead of course.

 

Brett, do a search, theres more of that **** than '32 barn finds!

 

His site used to have more info. It has not been updated for awhile.

 

I think if we could keep it auto, industrial aftermarket it might streamline the process. Obviously funky and rare pieces should be included. But I dont see a purpose in a 10 mph steamroller gauge fitting here unless its just for year(timeline) i.d.

 

alchemy gets my vote to write the book. He's been dealing with them longer than anyone.

 

Yeah, with pictures. For the new winged gauges you can post a picture of a steaming turd!

 

...noted

 

1947