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I'll take a picture tomorrow of a bracket that is loose and not mounted in a car to more clearly show the 'C'-portion.

The 1950 Hudson Pacemaker used one trumpet horn. This was a stand alone model that had this setup for one year only.

It's amazing. I learn something new about Hudson's every single day.

Alistair-

Let's try it again. Look at brackets hanging up (cowl vent is in the middle). They are hanging upside down. The 'C' goes at the top . . . .

Wait, let me go get another pic . . .

Horn(s) mount at the top of the diagonal brace set in place in 2nd pic. Note 'C'-shape at the top. Horn(s) mounts to this part of the bracket.

Hope this helps. If you need something else, let me know.

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Alistair, that's interesting. So, your car is an import, but studying these cars as I have lately, I can see very easily how they were designed to be either RH or LHD, as mounting points, etc. are on both sides of the chassis. Actually, RHD is more difficult, due to the clutter of components, as Geoff has brought up before. Meaning, if the clutter wasn't enough on the RH side, now you've got steering components in the way as well. It was my understanding that most everything was the same on the imports (at least step-downs). Looking at your pictures, I don't see where the mounting bracket for the brace goes, or was, if ever it was there, which I thought it should've been. I wish Geoff would chime in, perhaps he knows more.

I'm gonna study your pics some more, as there are foreign holes there, as well.

To answer your question, yes, my car is the longer 124", but I thought the braces were used on both the senior and junior cars.

S.w.b. cars don't have the braces. I used to own this car, and it had the original long trumpet horn, which used to short out on the battery occasionally! Actually the history of the car is a bit convoluted, it was originally brought to N.Z. from Malaya by a N.Z. serviceman, who obtained a r.h.d. conversion kit form Australia and had it converted locally. when I bought it, it had no exhaust system, and I had a huge job fabricating the front pipe, because of the steering arm in the way. Turned out it still had the l.h.d. exhaust adapter. I eventually obtained the correct r.h.d. right-angle adapter, made things a lot easier. Read my next W.T.N. article to find out why I sold this car.
Geoff

Hopefully the attached pictures will allow you to determine the installation requirements for the dual horn installation found on most of the Short Wheel Base Hudson Stepdowns. The installations shown are of the horn installation in a 1953 Wasp. Note that the two horn brackets are NOT installed in the same manner for this car. One of the mounting points (Left side of the car/driver side in the US variant) has a slot cut into the firewall re-enforcement brace to accept the horn bracket. The horn bracket on the opposite side bolts through the same brace on the opposite side.

First and second pictures are of the right side the remaining four pictures are of the left side installation.

Just for histories record, at one time I had three 1950 Pacemakers. All had the trumpet horn set up. The convertible of the bunch had a high and low trumpet horn set. All of the trumpets were mounted on the right side of the car.