WTK: Stewart Warner temp gauge ??

[Wingnutt]

Can anybody identify what vehicle this went in? Dodge WC? CCKW?

- Marked Stewart Warner 400083 at the bottom of the face of the dial
- It’s also stamped Stewart Warner in script on the back.
- The capillary tube is approximately 60” long

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[Michael O.]

US6 or Autocar?

[Peterdodge6volt]

US6 and auto car did not have paintcan gauges, US6 had autolite gauges and some of the early and late auto car had AC gauges and standard bezel SW gauges my brother in law have a 1945 US6 and a 1943 auto car

I have all the books and I am smart of what gauges goes to the wartime vehicles

We have 38 wartime military vehicles in our collection.

[Chuck Lutz]

Out at the Willys place in Cazadero I checked the cab of a wrecker and found it had paintcan gauges in the dash. Not sure anymore which wrecker that was, but they were there. Maybe it was a Ward-LaFrance? Those who have the manuals for those wreckers might find a picture of the dash in them to verify which one it was. I was interested in knowing if they'd sell the gauges but it belonged to some other person.

You will find SW Temp gauges with several different lengths of cap. tubes on them depending on the application. I have seen them in 50" lengths as well. Jeeps were not the only vehicles to use them...Seeps and GTBs come to mind built by Ford for instance.

[Wingnutt]

Out at the Willys place in Cazadero I checked the cab of a wrecker and found it had paintcan gauges in the dash. Not sure anymore which wrecker that was, but they were there.

Good memory. I posted the same WTK on the big truck forum due to the long flex cap tube, and Peterdodge6volt identified it as out of a Diamond T or Federal wrecker. Based on Peterdodge6volt also posting that it would also be Slattie if it had a shorter cap tube, I also posted it in the Slattie forum. Weaseler confirmed the Diamond T, but Fabrizio thinks VEP GPW, not Slattie (Auto-Lite). What say you about VEP GPW?

[Fabrizio]

I didn’t say it is VEP; I said that it’s probably the same gauge that is found on VEPs except for the lenght of the tube

[Peterdodge6volt]

I didn't say it's for slatty, I said it's also use in early VEP jeep but short tube.

Paint can gauges goes to what vehicles
Early VEP GPW jeep but short tube.
LaWa France wreckers truck
Diamonds T trucks
Federal tracks
And some of the early whites truck that looks similar to the federal trucks
Their are few whites truck in Australia that survived, one is beginning on restoration.

Peter

[Wingnutt]

I didn’t say it is VEP; I said that it’s probably the same gauge that is found on VEPs except for the lenght of the tube

My apologies for omitting the bit about the wrong tube length, which I already mentioned, and consider implicit. Instead of further butchering an attempt to summarize the discussion on this topic on other threads, here is what you actually said...

The face, bezel and probably everything except the lenght of the tube should be identical to a VEP GPW one;

[Wingnutt]

I didn't say it's for slatty, I said it's also use in early VEP jeep but short tube.

Again, the shorter tube would be implied, but my apologies for saying "Slattie" when you said "VEP". From my perspective, there can be no earlier production than Slattie (unless we're talking limited pre-production prototypes, which we weren't) and "VEP GPW" is a different animal than "VEP", but again, my apologies, and many thanks for clarifying and expanding your information. I have paid little to no attention to gauges and suppliers and their correlation to trucks.