Distributor

JFromm

Did Hudson ever have a dual point distributor? A friend of mine has one on his54. Was this from another make of car?

Lance

John These were aftermarket options.  One of the major manufactures was Mallory. They pretty much had dual point distributors for about any make years ago.

Park_W

I had a Mallory unit on my '38 8-cyl sedan.  It performed very well, even in the many "wound way up" occasions at the drag strip.  (And we won the class every time we took it there!)

JFromm

Thanks for the information

Glowplug

Found on my website - Ignition System page :

Hans

Don't for get the H 8 for 1930 to 32  had dual points

Toddh

Using a dual point distributor gives you a longer dwell time.  As you get to 8 cylinders and above, this becomes more important due to the decreased dwell. On 12 and 16 cylinder engines a dual point or even two separate distributors is required