I just found this post and will have to get to a high-speed connection to view all the pics. My touring is about May '16, so I have been most interested in this. My car is early enough to have the Magneto ignition and I'm lucky enough that all the number plates came with my car--one of the few floorboards still on it had the date plate still intact! So, Rodger mentions the roller gauge had a wooden bracket--ah ha!! So that's how it worked! My friend Lloyd did my instrument panel & it's still at his place, so I'll have to see what he did, maybe a metal bracket with rubber grommets, much as later car makers did. Rodger, can you post a pic of the wooden bracket? Don't feel all alone with needing odd-ball parts. From the remains of speedometer in my dash, my car originally had the very scarce air-motor driven Van Sicklen Speedometer, where the cable comes out on one side of the case., and I'm supposed to also have the Adams-Bagnell horn. Until I find a good speedo I can afford (hard to find, as the face lettering was painted on the inside of the speedo glass), I'm using the usual one, like you have. The same thing is likely with the horn too! Lloyd made a new lock for the glove box lid, so I have one of the few complete ones! I tried to convince him to make a number of them while he was doing it, but nope, and his work is so excellent--it looks like original, and I think works better than the originals did! My car is a LONG ways from going back together, but it will happen eventually! It really isn't as bad as it looks, but it's not as good as yours is right now!
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