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I found this item in a sealed box last week. I do not know why it is in my safe keeping but the box came from the Netherlands and the UK address was not legible.

Any ideas ? its free to anyone....

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8 minutes ago, Adrian Barrell said:

It looks like a sealed ignition distributor cap but from what.... Possibly post war US, I would say.

At first I thought that Adrian for a 6-cylinder, but I would have expected a central outlet for the king lead. Are those traces of Sky Blue on there?

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2 hours ago, fv1609 said:

At first I thought that Adrian for a 6-cylinder, but I would have expected a central outlet for the king lead. 

The US ones tend to have an internal connection from coil to rotor as the coil is mounted under the same cover adjacent to the distributor shaft, hence the lead terminals being offset.

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Ok Adrian yes you are spot on with that. Never comes across that arrangement before, but I have never taken much interest in US vehicles. So is that a screened ignition system? If so, is there any evidence of a ballast resistor in the ignition primary circuit?

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