<VV> Dome light switches

[Mark Corbin]

Yep, common auto industry practice, across the board.

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> From: David B. Neale <david.neale3 at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: <VV> Dome light switches
>
> When I was seventeen, a good many years back, I bought a 1961 Ford 
> Anglia.  This had a whopping great 997 cc engine; and although it had an 
> interior, (as we say here), or dome light, it was purely manual. No door 
> operated switches.
>
> However, a friend had an Anglia Super, which came with the truly awesome 
> 1200 cc engine.  That had door-operated switches for the dome light.  On 
> inspection, I found that Ford had installed everything necessary on my 
> own car, including running the wiring loom down to where the switch 
> would have been had I got the car with the monster engine.  They just 
> didn't put in the two little switches.  They cost me 1/-, (one 
> shilling), each, and voila. 30 seconds of work on each side, and I had a 
> luxury dome light.
>
> David
> 1965 Monza convertible 140 4-speed
>