BB>TOM WALKER wrote in a message to MARK LEWIS:

BB>ML>RW> Last early 50s Ford I had was a 51 and it no longer had the push
BB>ML>RW> button starter switch. The ignition switch was keyed and it worked
BB>ML>RW> like GM cars, except that the Ford keys were inserted upside
BB>ML>RW> down (tumblers up locks).

BB>ML> MH> I never realized that push button start was around before the key
BB>ML> MH> start.  Seems things are going full circle, back to the push
BB>ML> MH> button.

BB>ML>i seem to recall they used to be buttons on the floor like the old
BB>ML>high beam
BB>ML>headlight switches... the old truck we used on my g-father's farm had its
BB>ML>starter switch on the floor... with the clutch, brake, gas and
BB>ML>highbeams...

BB> TW> That as a GM Feature back in the 40's, Maybe even before.
BB> TW> The Starter was acticated by pressing a pedal located under the
BB> TW> dashboard just above the gas pedal

BB>The Ford Model T had the starter switch on the floorboard in the late 1920's

Frogot about those Fords. In summer of 1947 My father decided working on
a Wheat Farm up in Montana would expand my Horzions so he leant me to
n old couple with a smal place. I got to drive a Model "A" Truck to haul
the grain form the combine to his wheat silo and and also drive several
truck loads to the Grain Elevator in town. IT had that type of starter
pedal.
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