Michael, your storehouse of knowledge is vastly greater than I could ever hope
to have.B B As I wish to emphasize, I am more than content to follow the
guidance you give based on the knowledge you take the time to share.B B
I just thought it interesting that there are also some potentially creditable
sources of information, like the factory workshop manual, and potentially the
old CAT Shop Notes, that had alternative information.
Based on the additional detail you have provided, I think I can reconcile the
factory manual information.B B The pictorial mentioned shows a short shifter
in it.B That would suggest that it is indeed an early Tiger I drawing and
hence the location of auxiliary light switch as you described as appropriate
for that early version.B It also explains the single switch in the wiring
diagram showing one switch controlling two lights.B Your description of the
heater on-off switch for that model is also consistent with there being no
separately shown blower switch location.B B Obviously the factory did not up
date this drawing for their their 1967 First Reissue.B B
As for the CAT information, I am guessing that most likely it reflects what
was being made available as dealer installed options in the US.B In fact,
there is reference to checking with dealer regarding the Quartz Iodine or
Quartz Halogen nature of some of the lights listed.
Regards,
Gene
B ----- Original Message -----
From: " michael king" < michael .s.king@ gmail .com>
To: genepadgett @comcast.net
Cc: tigers@ autox .team.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:23:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] driving lights
Gene,
On the early tigers (and all alpines from SI-3) theyB 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 tigerB images shown from period road test (though should be noted all
those pics are UK cars)B
B 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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