Correct Mb Gauges

 

All Mb jeeps used steel bezelled Autolite gauges. The slat grill used steel bezelled gauges and the belief by some that early slat grills used brass bezelled gauges are incorrect.

 

 

 1941 slat grills used a 30 amp gauge, Gas gauge and non-incremented Autolite Speedometer.

 

 

 

 

 

Early January 42 the slat grill changed to a 50 Amp gauge. This dash configuration with the non-incremented speedometer was used up to Mb serial 125809.

 

 

 

 

 

The bezel on the early Autolite speedometers were the same shape as the gauge bezels. Later speedo’s had a different shaped bezel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above is an original picture taken at Holabird testing facility and is the dash of MB-128875. It has a GAS gauge,

50 Amp gauge and the Autolite 2nd style speedometer fitted. As can clearly be seen the odometer has less than 10 miles

registered on it.

 

 

Autolite Speedometer

 

After Mb 125809 the speedo changed to the one mile incremented Autolite Speedometer.

The Autolite speedometer can be recognized by the different bezel shape, the unique pointer shape and the dished face plate. The 2nd style Autolite speedometer had its face printed the same as the Motometer but like the 1st style it didn’t have luminous paint on the 10 and 20 mph markers. This totally original speedometer (pictured above) is the only one currently known to exist in the world and was located here in Australia. Hopefully more will be found and if you have an Mb between 125809 and 137761 than this is the speedometer that should be in it and makes your jeep rather unique.

 

 

 

 

Motometer Speedometer

                             

From Mb 137761 Mb’s used the long needle Motometer speedometer until around March-April 1943. These had the standard style bezel, a fatter different shaped needle pointer and no longer had a dished style face plate. It was around this time

that the GAS gauge changed from having GAS printed on the face to having FUEL printed on the face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In March 1943 the speedometer changed to the short needled Motometer and this dash configuration was used until the end of production.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The King Seeley Speedometer was also used in the Mb from around April 1943 until end of production however the vast majority appear to be Motometer speedometers. The King Seeley can have either a 60 or 63 mph face.