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How many of you are old enough to remember this?

way before my time

After market turn signal, hose clamp for the column. Not sure about that red button - don't recall emergency flashers back then, but maybe....

My step father had one on a 49 Chevy.

there were also some air brake controls likethat

Might not be as old (that unit anyway) as you surmise. You can buy ones exactly like that today. As suggested above - the early ones did not have the push/pull emergency flasher knob.

dj

yep was going to put one on my 50 chevy but i just used my arm for turning .then wire it up with turn signals when i went to the new front end

The red knob is for nitros

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Originally Posted by 29arod

The red knob is for nitros

HaHaHa

It took me a minute... but I remebered what it was. It's been a very long time!

here are some brand new ones.
https://vintageautogarage.wordpress....t-rod-rat-rod/

Heavy Duty turn signal switch, mounts to steering wheel column


We have been cooking up a new product that I think you might like. First a little history around turn signals, did you know that the first electric turn signals were invented by Buick in 1938? That’s right, the only turn signals before that were our hands sticking out the window and some English cars manufactures had mechanical turn signal arms.

Then until the early 1960s, most front turn signals worldwide emitted white light and most rear turn signals emitted red. Amber front turn signals were voluntarily adopted by the auto industry in the USA for most vehicles beginning in the 1963 model year, though front turn signals were still permitted to emit white light until FMVSS 108 took effect for the 1968 model year, whereupon amber became the only permissible color for front turn signals. Presently, almost all countries outside North America require that all front, side and rear turn signals produce amber light. In North America the rear signals may be amber or red. International proponents of amber rear signals say they are more easily discernible as turn signals. U.S. studies in the early 1990s demonstrated improvements in the speed and accuracy of following drivers’ reaction to brake lamps when the turn signals were amber rather than red. American regulators and other proponents of red rear turn signals have historically asserted there is no proven lifesaving benefit to amber signals, though a 2008 U.S. study suggests vehicles with amber rear signals rather than red ones are up to 28% less likely to be involved in certain kinds of collisions.

There is some evidence that turn signals with colorless clear lenses and amber bulbs may be less conspicuous in bright sunlight than those with amber lenses and colourless bulbs.

So there is some history on turn signals:

Here is a link to a heavy duty steering column turn signal switch. This is a great value! $24.95

http://www.vintage-planet.com/switch-5007r-upi.html

Yes, I just wired one up last week!

Yep, I have a couple I am saving for some future project......one has the knob for rhe four ways, the other doesn't, but it does have the round knob on the end that flashes as the turn signals flash. We old people need that, otherwise we drive along for hundreds of miles before we realize our signal has been on the whole time.

Don

Had one on my first car a four cylinder Henry J bought out of Ipswich, SD. Was mounted but never wired. Stuck my arm out the window when it was nice out, took my chances 6 months out of the year, couldn't see out the defrosters any way.
The good old days!