At 05:23 30-1-2001 -0600, Richard B Gosling wrote:
> I had the same thought, on heater control lighting, about my Spit. If you
> remove the perspex there is a hole where it looks like a bulb holder could
> push into - but no sign of a bulb holder, or wiring for one. So, I asked
> TRGB, and was told that they had only ever seen one Spit with the light
on it.
I asked the same question at the Spitfire Graveyard in Sheffield (see
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekieboom/spit/graveyard.html ). They must have broken
up hundreds of UK market Spitfires over the years, but never encountered
one with a heater panel bulb holder.
> Could be that this was a requirement for some foreign market but they
were too
> stingy to include it on UK cars. Could be that they had originally planned
> the light but then changed their mind. Could be that they had problems
> getting supplies of the bulb holder. Could be that they had problems
with the
> bulb overheating in the confined space. Who knows? In any case, at
least for
> UK cars, the controls do not light up as standard.
On my 1976 Dutch market car, there is a bulb in the heater panel, which
definitely looks factory-installed. On my friend's 1979 Belgian market
Spit, there is no trace of a bulb holder.
Triumph production moved in mysterious ways...
Cheers,
--
Eric Kieboom - The Netherlands
1976 Spit 1500 - Original Java Green
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekieboom/spit/spit.html
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