Gene,
On the early tigers (and all alpines from SI-3) they had the option of
having the "fog" switch bellow the ammeter as the heater was controlled by a
push/pull switch intergral in the control knobs for the ventilation system.
these are the ones with the metal knobs. On the SI-3 alpines they had a
perspex eschutcheon with "fog" on it that contorlled the lamp, though in
that circumstance it was likely a single "fog" lamp. Also available was a
seperate panel that mounted below the dash that contained a sparto rotatry
switch that could bring on fog, dirving or both by rotating it.
On the tiger images shown from period road test (though should be noted all
those pics are UK cars)
they list and show the small auxilery panel in my pics, they list single
position lucas switches as part of the kit. and they could control 1 fog 1
driving (hence 2 switches) or you could have 2 fog or 2 driving lamps.
The factory lamps were always LUMAX, DF1 models on SI.II alpines and when
they moved to 3 they had the smaller lamps, during 1963 they released a lamp
with "ROOTES" instead of lumax in the centre.. this was stcok for all
Tigers. It should be noted there were 3 types of bracket for the lamps,
single stand along, ones incorperated into the optional badge bar and a rare
set that mounted the lamps lower with a simple angled bracket that had a
lamp using an angled mounting post (quite rare)
Anyway.. if you want "factory" correct for a tiger they should be the ROOTES
logoed lumax lamps, but there are plenty of nice period options, the lucas
lamps, Wipac, Sparto lamps and even other types of slimline lumax options...
--
Regards
Michael King
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