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Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Tony - a couple of questions.
1) Why do you say the red outline on the gear change quadrants are not CMP?
2) ".....so I would say that the red outlined face is for postwar 45-46 models....." Why do you say this and by "red outlined face" do you again mean the quadrants?
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Originally posted by Tony Smith
I'd love to find an application and date list for the different 579 series gauges,.....
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Quite simply, Bob, because I have not seen a wartime dated 579X before. Thank you for your pics. The one I pictured with a dark outline around the gauges is either a 579U or O, Mar 43. It is the only Stewart Warner I have with a clearly legible original face. (Yes, I meant "Red Outlined" quadrants)
Cletrac's is the first I have seen with a clear date, despite many other clear pics of the face. Being late 45, It is not for a CMP (Which had round gauges by then), so I though it was for post-war Civvy production, which was kicking off around that time in the US.
I do note though, that the red paint on the speed scale and on the other gauges in the cluster seems to fade much quicker than the Greys, Blacks and Whites. Some of my Waltham gauges appear to have no lining around the quadrants at all.
Will keep trap shut until I find an Stewart Warner catalogue with an application listing for the 579 series speedos.