[Healeys] 100-6/3000 overrive dash switch - Lucas?

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

I was on the road headed to the Glenwood Springs Rallye in 2002 and my
overdrive was cutting out. For some reason I thought it might be the switch. I
wandered into the Ace Hardware store in Alamosa, Colorado and found a switch
just like my OEM switch. It is identical in every way and can't be
distinguished from the one it replaced. As I recall I paid $3.50 for it. it
didn't fix the problem...

Bill Lawrence
BN1 #554

> To: cnaarndt at gmail.com; healeys at autox.team.net
> From: fiat500f at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:43:14 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100-6/3000 overrive dash switch - Lucas?
>
> VERY cool!  So, if the earliest switch, the Arrow switch, is in a Lucas box
> with 31452 on it, are you saying that the later switches are also 31452,
but
> again just not Lucas switches in the box, or are the later switches totally
> not Lucas in manufacture or box?
> It's odd, for the overdrives, Lucas makes the wiring, the throttle switch,
the
> isolation switch, and the solenoid, but NOT the switch to turn it all on?
> Odd.
>
> Thanks for the photos - they made it all very clear!
>  - Paul B.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com>
> To: fiat500f <fiat500f at aol.com>; Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>; Healey
> List <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 7:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100-6/3000 overrive dash switch - Lucas?
>
>
>
>
>
> Paul & Kees,
>
>
> The early dash overdrive switches (BN1s through BT7s) while having a Lucas
> part number where in fact made by other vendors, "ARCOELECTRIC" and "ARROW"
to
> be specific.
>
> In fact I have and NOS Lucas overdrive switch in the box, but the NOS
switch
> inside is made by ARROW.  The Lucas part no. on the box is 31452 and is
> correct as listed in the period Lucas catalogs for the 100s.  This switch
is
> for the early BN1s up to around early to mid 1954 and had a very short
toggle
> with a ball end plus the wires were soldered on verses being attached with
> screws.
>
>
> The later BN1 switches were made by ARCO ELECTRIC and and had a similar
short
> toggle but tapered like the later switch toggles. It's Bakelite base was
much
> smaller like the ARROW switch but it now had brass screws to attach the two
> wires.
>
> Starting with the BN2 through the BT7s the switches were the familiar long
> toggle type with a bigger Bakelite base also made by ARCO ELECTRIC.
>
>
> Now the question is... was ARCO ELECTRIC part of LUCAS or a contracted
vendor
>
>
>
> Paul and Kees, see photos, and yes I know the list strips photos, so the
rest
> of you will have to request that I send these to you.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Curt
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:16 AM,  <fiat500f at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Is the overdrive switch on the dash of the BN4/6/7/BT7 a Lucas switch?  I
> can't find anything in the Lucas books listing the number.  I just have the
> BMC number, 1B9030.  Odd!
>
>  - Paul B.
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