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Switches and Warning Lights 1959-75
No. Part No. Description Qty. Remarks No. Part No. Description Qty. Remarks
Fascia Switches and Warning Lamps
1959-69
Toggle Switches (Rocker Switches for Selected Export Markets)
The familiar toggle switches were fitted to most Mk I and Mk II Minis built between 1959 and 1969, the
exceptions being those cars bound mainly for Germany and Sweden (i.e. cars subject to more stringent
safety regulations , and those with two speed windscreen wipers) which had instead very early designs of
rocker switches. Switches with long (easy reach) toggles are not original to any Mini (apart from some
factory competition cars), and were a period aftermarket accessor y.
The early rocker switches are now very difficult to come by, so the rocker switches listed here are
necessarily of the later 1969-70 type. These may require a very small amount of modification to fit,
depending on the switch panel design in the car.
A toggle switch is secured by a threaded chrome ring, which can be difficult to tighten (using a small
screwdriver in one of the two slots on the ring or a pair of pliers usually damages the ring or the
switch, or scratches the paint on the switch panel). For a few minutes w ork and a few pence you can
be the envy of your Mini (or MG, or any other car with Lucas toggle switches) owning friends by having
the correct tool for the job:
Obtain a 4-6” length of steel tube (copper is too soft), with an internal diameter between 9/16” and
5/8” and an external diameter greater than (but not too much more than) 3/4”. You should be able to
beg this from a scrap metal merchant or a steel fabricator on the local industrial estate, rather than
having to purchase a 2 metre length of tube from a steel stockist. Holding the tube vertically in a vice,
simply file away enough material from one end to leave two diametrically opposite lugs which are both
wide enough and deep enough to engage securely in the slots on the switch ring. Easy!
1 1H9077 SWITCH, lighting, toggle type 1
2 13H6322 SWITCH, lighting, rocker type 1 1968-69, selected export mark ets.
3 BHA4832 ESCUTCHEON, rocker switch 1
4 2A9129 SWITCH, wipers, single speed, toggle type 1
5 13H6324 SWITCH, wipers, two speed, rocker type 1 1968-69, selected export mark ets.
6 BHA4832 ESCUTCHEON, rocker switch 1
7 5L31 SWITCH, panel lamp (instruments) 1 Not Cooper or Cooper S.
BCA4312 SWITCH, panel lamp (instruments) 1 Cooper and Cooper S.
8 5L31 SWITCH, companion box lamps 1 Deluxe, 1959-62.
9 13H1909 SWITCH, heated rear window 1 Optional fitment.
10 BCA4778 BODY AND LENS, heated rear window 1
lamp
11 13H1925 BULB HOLDER, heated rear window lamp 1
12 GLB281 BULB, 2 watts 1
13 24G4970 BRACKET, heated rear windo w switch 1
and lamp
14 AB606031 SCREW, bracket to fascia 2
15 57H5260 SWITCH, rheostat, heater fan control 1 For recirculatory heaters.
16 13H250 KNOB, heater switch, marked ‘H’ 1
17 BCA4331 SWITCH, heater fan, toggle type 1 For square fresh air heater 1959-61.
18 ADA3539 BRACKET, heater fan switch 1 For square fresh air heater 1959-61.
19 PMZ308 SCREW, bracket to fascia 2
20 WL700101 WASHER, locking 2
21 FNZ103 NUT 1
22 5L193 SWITCH, heater fan, toggle type 1 For square fresh air heater 1961-63.
23 14A9989 BRACKET, heater fan switch 1 For square fresh air heater 1961-63.
24 PMZ308 SCREW, bracket to fascia 2
25 WL700101 WASHER, locking 2
26 PWZ203 WASHER, plain 2
27 27H8235 SWITCH, heater fan, toggle type 1 Fitted to casing of fresh air heater
(metal case), 1963-69.
28 YUF101090 SWITCH, heater fan, rocker type 1 Fitted to casing of fresh air heater
(plastic case), 1968-69.
1969-75
Toggle Switches on Early Models;
Rocker Switches (With Lucar Spade Terminals) on La ter Models
Toggle switches continued to be fitted to most Mk III Minis (except for selected expor t markets which
used rocker switches) for the first year or so of production. The main change over from toggle to
rocker switches did not however occur at the same time as the change from dash ignition switch to
steering lock ignition switch - on the majority of Mini models it happened a year before steering locks
came in, although steering locks were fitted as options or standard equipment for some markets from
the early 1960s onwards.
Hazard warning lights and switches began to be fitted during this period. They were fitted to several
expor t market left hand drive Minis for many years before they were fitted across the board on all
models in the late 1970s. Most of these earlier cars with hazard switches on the fascia were bound for
Germany, Sweden and Canada. As usual of course there is an e xception to the rule, and it is possible to
find early 1970s right hand drive Minis with factory fitted hazard warning lights; if you have one, it is
BAOR specification - its first owner would have been a soldier in the British Army of the Rhine, for
whom the car had to be basically UK spec. and RHD, but also complying with local German regulations .
29 1H9077 SWITCH, lighting, toggle type 1 1969-70.
30 13H6322 SWITCH, lighting, rocker type 1 1969-70, selected export markets .
31 BHA4832 ESCUTCHEON, rocker switch 1 1969-70.
32 2A9129 SWITCH, wipers, single speed, toggle type 1 1969-70.
33 13H6323 SWITCH, wipers, single speed, rocker type 1 1969-70, selected export markets .
13H6324 SWITCH, wipers, two speed, rocker type 1 1969-70, selected export markets .
34 BHA4832 ESCUTCHEON, rocker switch 1 1969-70.
35 13H6342 SWITCH, lighting, rocker type 1 1970-75.
36 13H6343 SWITCH, wipers, single speed, rocker type 1 1970-75.
13H6344 SWITCH, wipers, two speed, rocker type 1 1970-75.
37 13H5331 SWITCH, brake check light 1 Canada.
38 13H8691 SWITCH, hazard warning lights 1 Selected expor t markets.
39 BCA4780 BODY AND LENS , warning lamp, red A/R
40 13H1925 BULB HOLDER,warning lamp A/R
41 GLB281 BULB, 2 watts A/R
Be sure to use correctly rated bulbs in warning lamps; the extra heat generated by too high a power of
bulb will distort or even destroy plastic components in the warning lamp assembly.
42 CZH1439 BRACKET, hazard warning light switch A/R
and lamp
43 CZH1556 BRACKET, brake check and A/R Canada.
hazard warning switches
44 13H1909 SWITCH, heated rear window, toggle type 1 Optional fitment, early models.
45 BCA4778 BODY AND LENS , heated rear window 1
lamp, green
46 13H1925 BULB HOLDER,heated rear window lamp 1
47 GLB281 BULB, 2 watts 1
48 24G4970 BRACKET, heated rear window switch 1
and lamp
49 AB606031 SCREW, bracket to fascia 2
50 YUF101680 SWITCH, heated rear window, rocker type 1 Optional fitment, later models.
It is not known when this illuminated rocker switch was first fitted to Minis with heated rear windows; it
is however quite definite that it appeared on the car some time before 1976, which is when all the
other illuminated rocker switches appeared.
51 GLB921 BULB, heated rear window switch 1
52 24G6617 BRACKET, heated rear window switch 1
53 AAM222 PLUG, unused holes in bracket 2
54 36052Z SCREW, bracket to fascia 2
55 13H6595 SWITCH, electric windscreen washer 1 Optional fitment and selected export
markets.
56 YUF101090 SWITCH, heater fan control, single speed 1 Saloons and Clubman Estate with fresh
air heater.
Late 1990s Mini heaters were fitted with a switch (YUF101410) which looks on the face of it to be the
same, but which controlled a two speed fan. This later switch should not be used on Minis of the period
covered by this section, which were fitted with single speed fans .
57 57H5260 SWITCH, rheostat, adjustable heater fan 1 Van and Pick Up with recirculatory
control heater, 1969-74.
58 13H250 KNOB, heater switch 1 Van and Pick Up with recirculatory
heater, 1969-74.
59 27H9229 SWITCH, barrel, on-off heater fan control 1 Van and Pick Up with recirculatory
heater, 1974-75.
2H4841 SWITCH, barrel, on-off heater fan control 1 Alternative to 27H9229.
60 13H7901 KNOB, heater switch 1 Van and Pick Up with recirculatory
heater, 1974-75.
Vans and Pick Ups built until the start of the 1980s, along with some early 1960s saloons , were
equipped with a non-fresh air ‘recirculator y’ heater (if they had a heater at all - many early ones didn’t),
otherwise known as the fug stirrer due to its unfortunate habit of sucking in stale cabin air, warming it
up and unpleasantly puffing it back out at the car’s occupants. The rate at which the occupants were
bombarded with fug was at least adjustable by means of a rheostat fan switch, until some point
(undocumented by the factory) in the early 1970s when a simple push-pull on-off (no fug or full force
fug) switch was introduced.
The switches are completely interchangeable so long as the knobs are changed as well,and strangely
enough many later Vans and Pick Ups now seem to be fitted with rheostat switches ... it makes the
recirculatory heater somewhat less intolerable and is less drastic than replacing the entire heater with a
saloon fresh air heater, which is the definitive answer to the problem. Having said all that, the rheostat
switch is unfortunately sometimes difficult to obtain now. Stick with it and find one!
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