[FWDLK] '55 Savoy -- Question about headlight switch

[Dan Morton <morton@RAD.UPENN.EDU>]

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