Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
Forum rules
If you need help logging in, or have question about how something works, use the Support forum located here Support Forum
Complete set of Forum Rules Forum Rules
If you need help logging in, or have question about how something works, use the Support forum located here Support Forum
Complete set of Forum Rules Forum Rules
-
jiminbartow
Topic author - Posts: 2433
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:55 pm
- First Name: James
- Last Name: Patrick
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Coupe
- Location: Bartow, FL
- Board Member Since: 2001
Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
I just purchased this vintage Stewart-Warner Tachometer. It was sort of an impulse buy, but I liked the vintage looking face of it, feeling that it looks like a gauge that would look right at home on a 1920’s vehicle. It is also NOS with the original paper label on the back, an hours gauge reading 00000 and the protective sealing wax still on the threaded cable connecting port on the back. Does anyone know anything about this gauge? How old it is, how it could be hooked up to a Model T and where to find a cable and the connections? I don’t really need it if it cannot be hooked up to a Model T and I will probably sell it to someone with a vintage car that will accommodate it, or someone that has the knowledge, experience and parts to install it in a Model T. Thank you for any information you can provide. Jim Patrick
-
TRDxB2
- Posts: 6260
- Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:56 pm
- First Name: Frank
- Last Name: Brandi
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: Speedsters (1919 w 1926 upgrades), 1926 (Ricardo Head)
- Location: Moline IL
- Board Member Since: 2018
Re: Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
Same discussion was started a few days ago by someone else https://mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php? ... ch#p267438
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
-
Allan
- Posts: 6609
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:21 pm
- First Name: Allan
- Last Name: Bennett
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1912 van, 1917 shooting brake, 1929 roadster buckboard, 1924 tourer, 1925 barn find buckboard, 1925 D &F wide body roadster, 1927LHD Tudor sedan.
- Location: Gawler, Australia
Re: Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
The hour meter likely means it was for industrial use. Farm machinery, tractors etc, used them as indicators for service needs.
Allan from down under.
Allan from down under.
-
TMiller6
- Posts: 278
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:11 pm
- First Name: Thomas
- Last Name: Miller
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 16, 24, 26 Touring - 26 Roadster and Fordor
- Location: SE MI
- Board Member Since: 2006
Re: Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
If you Google Stewart Warner 503-E, a few references to military use pop up as well as a discussion on the HAMB.
Tom Miller
One who cannot find beauty in an engine cannot find beauty in the universe.
One who cannot find beauty in an engine cannot find beauty in the universe.
-
Lil Teezy
- Posts: 96
- Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:01 pm
- First Name: Chris
- Last Name: Levi
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 touring 1927 roadster
- Location: Boulder, Co.
- Board Member Since: 2017
Re: Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
What’s the back look like? I have seen WWII and Korean War era, new in the box military vehicle gauges with that green drab bezel instead of bright metal. No reflection?
-
TRDxB2
- Posts: 6260
- Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:56 pm
- First Name: Frank
- Last Name: Brandi
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: Speedsters (1919 w 1926 upgrades), 1926 (Ricardo Head)
- Location: Moline IL
- Board Member Since: 2018
Re: Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
I should have searched the INTERNET earlier for it. This is on eBay not James'
https://www.ebay.com/itm/304174300310
--
--
You might contact the eBay seller he is a "Jeep" parts guy
https://www.ebay.com/itm/171860031535?h ... Sw9N1Vpuyt
says WWII M38 M38A are Model Jeeps
https://www.ebay.com/itm/304174300310
--
You might contact the eBay seller he is a "Jeep" parts guy
https://www.ebay.com/itm/171860031535?h ... Sw9N1Vpuyt
says WWII M38 M38A are Model Jeeps
- Attachments
-
Last edited by TRDxB2 on Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
-
Allan
- Posts: 6609
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:21 pm
- First Name: Allan
- Last Name: Bennett
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1912 van, 1917 shooting brake, 1929 roadster buckboard, 1924 tourer, 1925 barn find buckboard, 1925 D &F wide body roadster, 1927LHD Tudor sedan.
- Location: Gawler, Australia
Re: Information Needed on a Vintage Stewart Warner Tachometer
The green drab bezel makes sense on military vehicles/machinery. They may not do many miles but may operate for some time. Every time the engine is started, the hours are recordred. In this way a service schedule can be adopted to suit the running conditions. Like a lot of government/military items, they stockpile spares that often are outdated before they are used.
Allan from down under.
Allan from down under.