A Study Of Switch Plates

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Thought I'd add another variation to the question, most of the reproduction pictures I have seen have five switches. My late '45 HUP as a six switch plate. I've attached a couple of pictures to illustrate the differences. Can anyone shed some light on when this change took place and is it peculiar to HUPs.

Never seen another one of these 6 switch plates until Sjoerd van de Wal offered me to buy his example. I bought it as a conversation piece.

It has the usual switches plus an extra one in the 5th position (from the top) for “clear headlamp isolation”.

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