[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

I think that was for the grounding spike.

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Back in the late 1970's and early 1980's, when I was tracking down missing parts for my own 2K1 Wireless Body, I had the great good fortune of being able to study over 50 examples of this body the local Princess Auto dealer conveniently had sitting about their property and from which they were more than happy to sell off any parts I needed and could remove. Happy Days!!!

One bit of these bodies puzzled me back then, and still puzzles me today, so if anyone can shed some light on it, it would be most appreciated.

On the left side of the body, directly below the rear window (Cypher Clerk's Window), midway up the body, is a small rectangular compartment. The cover has a finger tab on it and hinges down when pulled open. Inside are a pair of heavy duty, threaded, electrical posts with wing nuts, mounted horizontally on a quarter inch thick plate of brown circuit board. If memory serves, a '+' and '-' sign are engraved into the board and filled with white paint beside these two terminals. Clearly, this access is intended to connect an external power supply of some type. The puzzle comes on the inside. On all of these bodies in the Princess yard, not one showed any signs of ever having had anything connected to it on the inside. In fact, this terminal box is totally isolated from any of the 12-Volt or 110-Volt systems inside the body and does not even show up on the body wiring diagram. If something was connected to it on the inside, the connection would be quite close to the Cypher Clerks knees when he was seated at his small table, which could prove rather disturbing, if contact was made.

Has anybody ever found any documentation explaining what equipment this terminal is intend for? One of the Generator Trailers is a possibility, external to the Wireless truck, but what was connected on the inside?

David