overdrive switch?

[Dion]

What is this right hand side column switch? Overdrive?



Interesting carpet  ;)
This car is listed on Ebay USA as a 1962 Herald 1200. Would it not have the white rubber bumper strips from new?
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[Pete Lewis]

the right hand side switch is  3 position  for headlamp control    off/ Main beam/Dip beam
   Pete

[Paudman]

If it's overdrive it will be through the cowling on a silver bezel behind the oval hole; ordinary light / indicator switches are through the oval hole in the shroud with no bezel.

[herald948]

peterhlewis wrote:

the right hand side switch is  3 position  for headlamp control    off/ Main beam/Dip beam

Correct...except for the North American market, where the column switch was Off - Side - Head. In turn, the dash switch was a single-position switch that only operated the gauge illumination, and the headlamp "dimmer" switch was the old floor-mounted, foot-operated type.

And yes, all Heralds (from the original 948 series on) destined for the US would have had white rubber bumper strips.