Re: New owner with lots of questions.

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2016/1/31 13:03:28

Packard designed this type of starter switch...

Actually it's a Carter Carburetor design, not Packard. And also used by Buick and perhaps others.

There was a period when some manufacturers had a preoccupation with unconventional starter switches. Chevrolet for years had the starter actuated by depressing the clutch pedal, and before that the Delco "Starterator" also used by Chrysler; Nash used a switch intergrated with the gear shift handle such that pulling the handle forward while in neutral activated the starter. I guess the grandfather of all these ideas and certainly the most elegant and sophisticated was "Startix" used by Packard, Lincoln, Piece-Arrow, Auburn, Studebaker, Hudson, Reo, Willys and others in the 30s. Startix was pretty elegant, when you turned on the ignition switchthe starter automatically engaged and if the engine stalled it automatically re-engaged the starter. I believe Startix was a product of Eclipse Manufacturing Co.