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[Daniel 1962 Austin Mini]

I purchased my first mini a few months ago, a 1962 Austin Mini brought up to Cooper S spec, and when I purchased it I notices some switches that I wasn't familiar with. There are two located under the 3 binnacle pod and one located on the underside of the heater box. All three are small toggle switches. The final switch is located on the right side of the steering column (RHD) and is a larger toggle switch that does not appear to be wired to anything. Anyone know what these switches do? Thanks for any help.

[Badboytunes]

Pics might help.....

 

 

Cheers

[lrostoke]

^{Pictures would help, but if retro fitted they could be anything.}

 

^{Any that are wired probably best tracing the wires see where they go.}

[Gadgets]

switch them on!

[petey81]

Nitrous parachute and oil spray?

[Grimshaw17]

Ejector seat? 

[vx220]

I once went to view a metro for my sister, it had switches labelled "oil slick" "guns" and "missiles" on the dash

We didn't buy that one!!!

[ace01]

I purchased my first mini a few months ago, a 1962 Austin Mini brought up to Cooper S spec, and when I purchased it I notices some switches that I wasn't familiar with. There are two located under the 3 binnacle pod and one located on the underside of the heater box. All three are small toggle switches. The final switch is located on the right side of the steering column (RHD) and is a larger toggle switch that does not appear to be wired to anything. Anyone know what these switches do? Thanks for any help.

Of the two under the speedo binacle, 1 will be for the intrument lights, the other may be a fuel pump switch.  The one under the heater is for the heater fan.   

[corrado vr6]

Phone the previous owner and ask? Or switch them and see what happends?

[ado15]

I seem to remember early binnacles with speedo only had two toggle switches. One would be instrument illumination as ace01 said. The other would be dash tray illumination. There would have been a clear plug on each side of the binnacle to let light out across the tray. However, I don't think this ever existed on the 3 instrument type. I stand to be corrected though!

[Daniel 1962 Austin Mini]

Thanks for all the ideas I'll give them a try next week and post some pics of results.

[Ivor Badger]

If the std switches for an 850 of the day. The one under the heater is the heater fan. The 2 on the binnicale are the speedo illumination and the parcel shelf lights.