Manufacturer is P&S- Peerboom & Schürmann of Dusseldorf. The key doesn't look very secure but I do like the P&S logo.
Googling the name, shows the company active in the early part of the last century as a manufacturer of tachometers and instruments. This switch must be from a German automobile of the time, but which one?
Looking online again, it might worth something as a collectors item.
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I believe it's a combination ignition and light control switch. "PARK" would be parking lights, which would illuminate lights only on the street side of the vehicle so it would be visible when parked (kind of in the roadway on narrow streets). Parking lights were popular in Germany even into the 80's and some US Mercedes and Porches made it here with the option. "AUS" translates to "off;" "MATT" translates to "dim;" and "HELL" translates to "bright" so those would be the headlamp selections.
I did find a 1913 P & S catalog online but it has only their mechanical tachometers. This switch looks a lot like the vintage Lucas switches so maybe it was something they made under license for the German market.
Not quite in the league of that poster price-wise, but still outrageous...
https://www.emwfeller.de/schrottplatz-dies-das/schalter-peerboom-schurmann-dusseldorf.html
Thanks for your input and the translations. The switch is a rotary switch like the Lucas, but i've only seen bakelite handles on the Lucas version? It reminds me of much more recent Japanese (and others?) motorcycle switches in that the light and parking light functions were incorporated in the ignition switch.
As far as I know, motorbikes didn't have left-side-only parking lights so I wouldn't expect to see a "PARK" function on a motorcycle switch. When I say "parking lights" I'm talking about the German left-side-only lamps that were turned on when the vehicle was left empty and parked along the narrow streets, not the running lights that we call parking lights here in the states. That's why the "PARK" function is by itself; the ignition and everything else is off when they are on.
I just learned something. Thanks! I woder how far back that requirement goes back?
I don't know the year but it goes back to when street lights were gas lights and weren't very bright. The roads were (are) narrow and you needed a way to indicate a parked car on the side of the road at night, and with fog. I spent a lot of time in Stuttgart in the early 90's and still saw parking lights in use, but not a lot (maybe 20% of streetside-parked cars). That was before LEDs so they were pretty dim, so as to not wear down the battery I suppose.
Mercedes still includes them in some of their models but it's a hidden function. With the ignition off, you turn the lighting control switch to "P" then flip the signal light lever right or left. The parking lights on only the selected side of the vehicle will then illuminate.
Thank you!
Mahlzeit -
es ist ein "Zündlichtschalter" der vor dem Krieg überaus beliebten DKW-Reichsklasse F5, F7 und F8.
It's a ingnition-light-switch for the popular DKW-'Reichsklasse' F5/F7 and F8 up to 1940 (pre WWII)
The switch-Positions means:
Park - parking lights / Parklicht
Aus - off
matt - dimmed headlight / Abblendlicht
hell - high beam / Fernlicht
Die etwas bessere Ausstattungsvariante "Meisterklasse" (sowie alle DDR IFA-F8) hatten andere Schalter - das Fernlicht wurde dort über einen Fußschalter bedient.
The higher-comfort-version of this cars, called "meisterklasse" had other switches for ingnitition and lights.
MfG / best regards
Oli K.
...und SCHLL bedeutet Schlußlicht, Horn ist Plus zur Hupe.
SCHLL means rear-light, Horn goes to the horn.
Old car, with only a little electric.
English:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKW_F5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKW_F7
Deutsch:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKW_F_5
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKW_F_7
P & S Switches were used on different, german cars. The DKW F5 and F7, two very polular people cars used them for example. Is the swith maybe for sale? I am interested in because of its good condtition for the project car of my buddy.
Best regards
Björn Schewe
bb@bugnet.de
Hallo,
Mag ik de schakelaarvan u kopen? Heb er wel een bestemming voor.
Groet Ron
Hallo Ron, neem contact op met Gerald@vanwyngaarden.ca en hij zal ons met elkaar in contact brengen.
Switch has been sold. thanks for all the information and input!
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