both of my US spec '75's have the bulb and socket
anyone out there with an earlier model year have it?
Paul Tegler ptegler@gouldfo.com www.teglerizer.com
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From: <alemen@pop.ftconnect.com>
To: <ekieboom@xs4all.nl>; <gosling_richard_b@perkins.com>;
<dean_rayner@mac.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: RE: The great heater panel bulb holder debate (was: Hello list!)
I had similar and it turned out that one the bulb holder was there but had no
bulb and was pushed back into the mess of wiring behind the dash.
New bulb and putting the holder in place now has green glowing heater controls.
This appears to be standard. It's a US federal spec 1976.
Alan
Original Message:
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From: Eric Kieboom ekieboom@xs4all.nl
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:12:10 +0100
To: Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com, dean_rayner@mac.com, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: The great heater panel bulb holder debate (was: Hello list!)
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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