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I just bought the coil box for the 1912 from market place which was brought to light in the classified ads When I looked it up it was marked 250 dollars so I snapped it up it is missing the nuts that hold the coils in, can anyone post a picture of what they look like. Thanks Colin

What maker of coil box ?

This is what I bought 250 dollars Would the missing nuts be the same nuts from the engine side of the box I currently have a reproduction box from 1961 which is made bigger for newer coils the 1910 box has the brass side attachment brackets. I may not change it now but it is nice to have the correct box ready to go , I have the original 1910 box but no lid it came with the car in 1960 the car had a 1915 box installed in it. The last pic is my car now.

It is a kingston box coils and switch

Here you go. The nuts look to be the size of spark plug nuts smaller and clearly different fron the terminal nuts on the engine side.

They look very much like whats on the nos X plugs from the 1920s

Yep, that they do!

Thank You that solves the question I should have it here in 5 days your post is a lot better than here in Canada, I have some old plugs but the top nut is much smaller but my nos plugs from way back the nut is much larger. I guess I'm going to learn about these coils this will be my first, I know Dad never had coils so went with what he had and it has worked for 60 years. I other question what is the wire for? Cheers Colin

The red wire is to bypass the coils because a master vibrator was hooked up instead. The contacts on each of the four coils were bypassed, and a single contact in the master vibrator takes over the function of the four coils.