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I have a 1950 Series 23 Deluxe Touring sedan equipped with a trunk light. I am not sure if it is the correct light for this car. Does anyone have an original Packard accessory light or a photo of what it looks like?

If you go to the literature and manuals section, you'll find a not-very-good picture in the 1948 accessories manual. Also there is a decent picture in the Spring 2011 issue of The Packard Cormorant; I'd scan it but it's a copyrighted publication.

In brief, it's round, it's got a naked metal finish, perhaps cadmium. It had a small bulb and socket connected to a mercury switch so that it goes on the when the trunk lid pitches upwards. The feed wire (trusting my memory on all this) goes off to the driver side of the car joining a body harness. The lamp is covered with a round, also naked metal, rotating cover with an opening so you can direct the light somewhat.

If I am not mistaken, you have to have your parking lights or headlights on for it to work.That is how it is on my 48 custom eight.

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According to the wiring diagram the trunk light uses the same connector as the tail lights so that would be correct. Thanks to this thread I now realize the the previous owner of my '50 has messed with the wiring in the trunk to make the trunk light circuit always 'hot'. Something else to undo.