Tamiya British Light Utility Car 10HP [

[@jerry2357]

The small lights on the mudguards will be side lights, which were used on older vehicles where the headlights weren’t located at the vehicle’s corners. They were fitted so other vehicles could get an impression of how wide the vehicle was, when passing on a narrow road at night.

[@sarumano884]

The "semaphore thing" is a left turn indicator. To warn drivers behind you that you were about to turn left, you stuck it out using a lever on the dashboard. If you wanted to warn drivers behind you that you were about to turn right, you stuck your hand out the window.

[@bob_._.]

The semaphore thing at 9:20 looks like a trafficator, an old style of turn signal but that's just a guess.

[@jerry2357]

Just wondering why there’s only one and none on the other side, too, if that is the case?

[@bob_._.]

@@jerry2357 They were the mechanical equivalent of using hand signals. Although come to think of it, if that's what it is, it shouldn't be on the passenger side, should it?

[@jerry2357]

@@bob_._. The half-timbered Morris Minor Traveller that my Dad drove in the 1960s had them on both sides, high on the door pillars. I was questioning if that part could be a trafficator if only one was provided on only one side of the vehicle.

[@bob_._.]

@@jerry2357 Oh, I had no idea they had them on both sides over there.

[@proudyorkshireman7708]

@@jerry2357 because the driver can use their arm on the right side but not on the left as I believe a hand signal to turn left is to point over the roof but as this vehicle has a higher canvas roof it probably wouldn’t be seen by other road users

[@trekanbelluvitsh]

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