Okay, I probably shouldn't admit this, but three weeks ago when this problem was discovered, my wife asked the dumbest question. "Have you checked the fuse?" I rolled my eyes and brushed off her comment as I walked to the garage and started tracing the electrical system, dismantling the tail lights, etc, etc. then I downloaded the owners manual from this site. Page 35 location of fuses. Hmm...it couldn't be. Yep, it sure was. A blown fuse! I think I'll keep this from my wife.

Oh, and here is my car

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Thanks everyone for your insight. What I don't understand is why they have two switches in line. I did notice that one of the leads was didconnected from the electrical switch and so I re-connected it with no new result. I have a new preassure switch from Max Merrit that I will try and install and see if that works

I recently bought a 1940 110 Club Coupe and have discovered that the brake lights do not work. There seems to be an electrical switch mounted to the brake pedal lever on the engine compartment side of the firewall (see photo) This switch is getting juice and seems to be working. Then there is a pressure switch on the master cylinder. Notice the discontected original wire in this photo I don't understand why the redundancy. The ordiginal equipment seems to be a pressure switch, but it also looks like the bracket that holds the eletrical switch is original. I want to bypass the pressure switch. Is this advised?

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