Can you Identify?

Ol racer
Ol racer Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
FYI Note: 3 Better Pictures moved to Pg 2;[/U]

Out of curosity any suggestions on this 'Item' that was on the top of my 1937 Terraplane cyl head near the front? It appears to be a ream of copper wire connected to the carb linkage. It also had another bracket bolted to the head with a primitive Knob and two wires leading from it. A few older Hudson enthusiasts did not know when they seen it on the motor. Could it have been part of the Electric Shift mechanism?

Thanks

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  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    I gotta say that I'm having a difficult time seeing what you're talking about, in those photos! Any chance you could lay this out against a white bedsheet or something, and focus a bit more on the object? If you're talking about that assembly just below the Hudson sign, it is not familiar to me at all and is most certainly not an original part for the car.
  • Huddy42
    Huddy42 Senior Contributor
    Never seen anything like it in my 50 years of being around Hudsons, maybe the car belonged to a terrorist.LOL.
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    Looks like a primitive radio antenna to me. Maybe the carb position changed the stations.



    Otherwise it looks like a coil whereas if you ran an iron rod back and forth inside it and had flooded the carb, you might be able to blow your head off..or at least singe your eyebrows.
  • Richard E.
    Richard E. Senior Contributor
    It definitely is not Electric Hand, perhaps it was a winch to hold the hood open???
  • jjbubaboy
    jjbubaboy Senior Contributor
    Maybe an early form of portable, self retracting clothes line~ LOL

    Always on the go and laundramats werent all that popular!

    :)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    It looks to me like the top of a barbers pole. When the barber turned the chair around the stripes on the bulb would spin. [note pulley] I bet the bulb is laying somewhere back there. circa 1864
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    I reckon it's the hydrosolator coil for scrambling the rejiggerator.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    A mechanism for radiator shutters or and elaborate fishing line.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Hudson Sales Service Sign ?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I mean come on guys. You don't recognize the factory kite flying accessory. Who doesn't like to fly kites? am I right? in the 30's Hudson combined two great pastimes. Driving Hudsons and flying kites. It was a perfect era to be a kid.....
  • Ol racer
    Ol racer Senior Contributor
    Few new Pictures of the Gadget I found on my '37 Terraplane.



    Please take another look and best guess what it was..... One side connected to the carburator linkage and the other to the gas pedal 'bellcrank' with a cable. (Note the pully) The center of the 'Gadget' has a Piston that slides in & out when the 'Coil' was apparently electrically 'Energized' similar to a starter Solonoid.... It appears intricate, and not 'home made' with the cast pedistal and bracket that mounted it to the cyl head.



    When I yanked the motor a few rs ago I 'disconnected it' thinking all '37's had the set-up. It wasnt until later when some Hudson Guys stopped over seen it on the motor and asked 'what is It' that I thought it was Unique....



    Recently I sold the motor but saved the contraption to hang on my garage wall.

    Now I know its not Terraplane, so my guess it may have been an early attempt at cruise control?

    Thanks
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    Okay, seriously, it an adjustable resistor, but what on earth it was connected to I have no idea.
  • Ol racer
    Ol racer Senior Contributor
    Ken U-Tx

    You are the closest with the most plausable explanation because it did have an antique Knob fastened to the head mounted on a pc of Asbestes type material. The Knob rotated about 60 degrees.



    Thanks for giving the Antique 'Solonoid' a believable story and thanks to everyone that sent their guesses.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Ol racer wrote:
    Ken U-Tx
    You are the closest with the most plausable explanation because it did have an antique Knob fastened to the head mounted on a pc of Asbestes type material. The Knob rotated about 60 degrees.

    Thanks for giving the Antique 'Solonoid' a believable story and thanks to everyone that sent their guesses.

    If indeed Ken U is correct... and I believe that to be the case... this item would be a great addition to a veterans museum for Vets. I know of seveal that feature prostetics. This would be something that would provide some historic evidence of the thoughts going into helping those who have lost thier abilties due to war.

    Just my two cents....
  • Ol racer
    Ol racer Senior Contributor
    Ken,

    What a very nice idea... I would be receptive to donating the Unit to one of those Veterans Museums and pay the shipping if they were interested.



    In fact, I could contact the purchaser of the motor to obtain the original switch with antique bakelight Knob I left on the head to be more complete and maybe clean up the Unit a bit....
  • bent metal
    bent metal Senior Contributor
    Ron P wrote:
    Hudson Sales Service Sign ?



    I agree Ron, looks like a re-pop not original. Still nice, and a good size too.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Ol racer wrote:
    Ken,

    What a very nice idea... I would be receptive to donating the Unit to one of those Veterans Museums and pay the shipping if they were interested.



    In fact, I could contact the purchaser of the motor to obtain the original switch with antique bakelight Knob I left on the head to be more complete and maybe clean up the Unit a bit....



    The Pennsylvania State Military Museum might be a place where your artifact could be displayed.



    :)
  • Ol racer
    Ol racer Senior Contributor
    bent metal wrote:
    I agree Ron, looks like a re-pop not original. Still nice, and a good size too.



    The Hudson Sales and Service Sign in the background is actually a removable Magnetic door Sign with durable High Image Vinal Graphics 17 1/2" W x 13H made for me by a local Sign Shop similar to signs Realtors put on their vehicles.. If interest in a duplicate I could provide more info.
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