Hi Stephen, more pictures attached. The idea of it being a bulb for a chirpy-chirpy-cheap-cheap single flashing light for the indicator is a distinct possibility. The 1960 Falcon did exactly the same thing - except the factory omitted what would have been the left-hand indicator bulb and green lens and stuck in a red high-beam indicator lens and bulb instead, the right one doing dual duty; can't tell you if it had one of these cans, though - it never failed when I owned the car.svenedin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 4:48 pm What an interesting thing. Zooming in on the picture it looks like the two contacts are actually round pins. Is that correct? I am guessing the flasher can fitted in a socket behind the dashboard and the bulb protruded through. Rather clever actually.
Stephen
This penny-pinching in the spirit of Henry The Elder had an unintended consequence - if you didn't show the examiner the dual-duty blinker light before taking a driving test, he could fail you when he saw the 'right' indicator flashing when turning left (he wouldn't have thought to look at the blinker wand, as the predecessor Zephyr had TWO lights). Ask me how I know...