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Photos of the linkages, hope they are instructive.

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momentary backup light switch?

Mal; Sorry about the misunderstanding, The right hand drive is a cat of a different color with the exhaust pipe added in to the mix. Dell

Nice, Mal, she looks pretty clean underneath! A really good old girl. You insurance description sounds like you can take her out for coffee when you have urge! Ernie

"momentary backup light switch?"

David - Exactly.

Jon - That's fine.

Ernie - My wife loves coffee so it'll get good use on that front.

Mal, thanks for taking the time and posting the linkage photos. Interesting arrangement.

Thursday 22nd February, 2018

Picked up the granddaughters after school and drove them the indicated 15 miles home in the Packard. Because I've been tied up with other matters this is the first real drive I've done in it. Runs well, only problem is shifting from 1st to 2nd and that without "racing shifts"! But a bit of practice seems to indicate that if you gently shift up and into the gate, let the lever drop slightly, then push across and up into 2nd you'll find 2nd OK. If not, there are nasty gear clash protests from the trans. Need to drive it more, in stop start conditions, to refine my shifting technique to the point it is workable and reliable. Noticed on the way that the temp gauge was climbing a bit so switched on the auxiliary fan. That seemed to keep it at about the 3/4 mark. While on the way home, didn't use the aux fan and it ran about 2/3 all the way!

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Good Day Mal...Our 'Miss Prudence' also has our grand daughters in the back seat on a regular basis. I also noticed the same shifting when we first began to drive 'Miss Prudence'.
We drained the transmission and filled it with 140 weight rather than the lighter oil that was in it. The old girl has shifted just fine since that time. Ernie

Mal, not sure how similar your 41 might have been to the Clipper style linkage but on the later style linkages used thru 50 shifting will benefit if you do a bit of PM and add a few drops of oil at the bottom of steering column.

The small hole on side of shift tube gets a few drops that runs down inside to get part of the mechanism and also another few at the top of the upper lever so it can run down in the gap between the top lever and shift tube.

The upper 2-3 lever corroding and sticking to the shaft is a frequent cause of issues because it has no real lubrication point and is frequently forgotten. It needs to freely rotate when the bottom R-1 lever is in use because if it sticks it tries to move the 2-3 linkage at the same time..

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Ernie - Unlikely to change to a different viscosity oil. The trans itself seems fine.

Howard - Added "a few drops of oil at the bottom of steering column", seems to make the change a bit smoother but this was in a static situation.

Also statically "practiced" my shifting technique, like going back to childhood where you'd sit in the family car pretending to drive. What I found was that by going up from 1st, then over into the gate gently and allowing the shifter to drop slightly, then pushing it over the final part of its journey, it then shifted up to 2nd easily. I seem to remember similar advice being given previously? Wasn't able to put the practice into practice, does that make sense(?), as I then had to go and pick up grandchildren again. But unfortunately NOT in the Packard. My daughter wasn't pleased that her daughters had been unrestrained in the back of the car yesterday. Tomorrow, however, is another day and I'm planning to take the Packard for a morning run to test and perfect my shifting technique.

While sitting in the car practicing my shifting technique, my thoughts drifted to the Flintstone Flyer. I doubt that car had shifting problems!