Oil Button

[Hugh Barnes]

Then it might be your lucky day, Mike!!

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C116...uElWOeOluw

[Mike Costigan]

Looks like it needs a lot of work!

Here it is back in the mid-1970s:


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[Mark McKibbin]

Thanks for the answers, from the parts book for a 1927 car I need a button that looks like this one and I will get another patent plate (magneto one smaller)

[Robert Leigh]

Here is slightly poor picture of our early'28 layout, with contemporary dash light and underdash lidded cubby holes. I believe the original bits are how yours should be.
Robert Leigh

[Austin in the Shed]

Measured from my chummy the hole is 8" in from o/s of dash and 4 7/8" up vertically from bottom edge of dash.If you get stuck I could help with a reconditioned round oil button.

[Tony Press]

You can also with a bit of fiddling get a Lucas SM3 switchboard to operate a coil ignition engine.

[Mark McKibbin]

Measured from my chummy the hole is 8" in from o/s of dash and 4 7/8" up vertically from bottom edge of dash.If you get stuck I could help with a reconditioned round oil button.

I assume it's centred on the steering column?

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You can also with a bit of fiddling get a Lucas SM3 switchboard to operate a coil ignition engine.

I will lookout for an SM3 and give it a shot, I assume the SM3 puts an earth on the maggy to stop whereas the SM5 puts battery on the coil to go.

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Here is slightly poor picture of our early'28 layout, with contemporary dash light and underdash lidded cubby holes. I believe the original bits are how yours should be.
Robert Leigh

I like the cubby holes, desperately needed as I don't even have door pockets.

[AustinWood]

I suspect your dash board isn't the original, hence no provision for oil button.

Andrew Goodfellow of Creative Metalwork made a new one for my 1929 RK fabric saloon. Excellent work and very good value.