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Are these T speedometers?

Post by fordrelic » Fri Feb 07, 2025 8:53 pm

Barn find Stewart speedometers.

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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by RecklessKelly » Sat Feb 08, 2025 12:42 am

The top one looks like it came from a ~1918 Maxwell 25.
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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by Tadpole » Sat Feb 08, 2025 4:29 am

Can confirm, my Maxwell has the same speedo


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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Sat Feb 08, 2025 7:38 am

Clay A/fordrelic,
Can you confirm the maximum speed reading on the speedometer in your first photo?


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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by fordrelic » Sat Feb 08, 2025 8:02 am

75 top speed on first speedometer.
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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Sat Feb 08, 2025 7:59 pm

Probably not from a Maxwell. Those speedometers were used as factory original on many makes and models of cars, and sold as after-market for anything someone might want one for. The 75 mph top reading would most likely be for a more expensive and therefore faster car as a factory offering. However, after-market buyers were likely to buy anything. The 75 mph models were a bit unusual. It would be great for a speedster, or Rajo roadster!

The other one? I don't have the reference book to look it up? However, there should be a letter and number stamped into the face plate just below the MPH reading. It should be a date code that with a proper reference book would tell you what year the speedometer was made. That basic style flat firewall mount began early 1910s, and continued in after-market well into the 1920s. Several years of brass era Ts used similar firewall mounted speedometers as factory standard or optional speedometers. Standard speedometers gave way to optional in 1915 as the companies manufacturing and supplying speedometers to Ford could not keep up with the demand. Fords continued to get firewall mounted speedometers through the late 1910s until starters became common and speedometers were put into the upper dash panels. Many trucks continued to get firewall mounted speedometers into the 1920s.
Yours appears to be a mid 1910s or 1920s model.


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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by rickd » Sun Feb 09, 2025 6:56 am

The bottom speedometer looks like a Stewart Model 102 from 1916. I can't make out the date code below the speed drum to confirm the date. See Russ Furstnows' Speedometer book page 53.


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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by fordrelic » Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:35 am

Rickd,
I think you are on to something.
I looked at the MTFCA encyclopedia and found information on the accessory speedometers model 102.

The bottom one as you said is a 1916, date mark is H.
The top one is a 1917, date mark J.

Both look similar but have different mounting system.
The 1917 looks to be made to fit in the dash panel.

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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by nathanw90 » Sun Feb 09, 2025 10:25 am

I have a Stewart dash in my T with the same Speedo as the first pic

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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by perry kete » Sun Feb 09, 2025 10:45 am

This speedometer was in my '22 Coupe when found.
Model T-'22 Coupe dash right side-Denny's.jpg
'22 Model T Ford Coupe after restoration 10.JPG
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Re: Are these T speedometers?

Post by fordrelic » Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:39 am

perry kete wrote:
Sun Feb 09, 2025 10:45 am
This speedometer was in my '22 Coupe when found.

Model T-'22 Coupe dash right side-Denny's.jpg

'22 Model T Ford Coupe after restoration 10.JPG
Nice

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