Joerg said:
My father's 1960's Ford Taunus 12M was 6V. This series was somewhat
comparable to the Ford Cortina and probably named after the German
mountain range "Taunus" near Frankfurt. 12M meant 1200cc, 15M was 1500cc
and so on. AFAIR they were built at Ford Motor Company in Cologne, Germany.
I think that VW was the lone holdout in the switch from 6 to 12
volts. I used to sell and install a lot of 6 V to 12 V converters for
'40s and '50s cars in the early '70s. I repaired a lot of them, when the
moron hooked it up wrong and took out the pair of Germanium power
transistors. There was also a 12 V positive ground to 12 V negative
ground converter for a few oddball models.
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