[VAC] Re: 1950's taillight wiring

["Fred Coldwell" <Agrijeep@xxxxxxxxx>]

RJ:

   Some cars and trucks in the 1950's did not have turn
signals installed at the factory.  They were an option and
the people who did not order them used hand signals when
turning.   When a separate turn signal switch was later
added to such a vehicle, the turn signal lights had their
own circuit and a separate lamp socket.  If your trailer was
ordered for such a tow vehicle (or turn signals were added
to the tow vehicle when the trailer was purchased), then it
would have had separate circuits for stop, turn and tail
lights so it could be wired to the car.  
  I could not pull up your image of the tail lamp, but does
it have two light sockets inside the housing, one single
base socket for the tail lamp bulb and a double base socket
for the stop light and turn signal?  I have a pair of rear
lights off an old truck from that era that are made that
way, two lamp sockets inside the housing, one single base
and one double base.  Pretty funky old tech. :)

Fred C.