Dan,
That is the way they built them in those days. The parking lamps did
not stay on with the headlamps until the big safety push of the late
1960's. (Amber parking lights appeared with the 1963 models.)
Bill W
> I'm rewiring my '55 Savoy -- it's a mess under the dashboard. I've pulled
> the headlight switch out, and given it a continuity check. I've
discovered
> something curious, and I don't know if it's a "feature" or a "defect".
>
> What I observe is that in the parking lights on position, the contacts are
> closed to the front lights and the taillights. In the headlights on
> position, the contacts to the taillights remain closed, but the contacts
to
> the front lights open! (The contacts to the headlights, of course,
close.)
>
> Since the lamp that illuminates the keyswitch is driven by a contact
ganged
> to the front light contact, I can rationalize that you don't want interior
> light from the keyswitch when you have the headlights on, and that there
is
> no need for front running lights with the headlights on either. Is this
> what the designers had in mind in 1955, or do I just have a bad switch on
my
> hands?!
>
> adTHANKSvance,
> Dan
>
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