416 Questions
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416 Questions
What was the last year the 416 was made? Did any 416 models come with "composite" tail lights? Or did they all use the same tail light as the M-151 and the M-151A1?
1964 M151 A1
Re: 416 Questions
The production of the M416-series came to an end in November 1979. At that time, the M416A1 was the version (the one with the hydraulic over-ride brake system).Bucolic wrote:What was the last year the 416 was made? Did any 416 models come with "composite" tail lights? Or did they all use the same tail light as the M-151 and the M-151A1?
The introduction of the composite tail-lights for M151s and trailers was 1970, although test vehicles were using the big lights a year or two earlier.
There was also a kit available to install composite lights onto pre-1970 M151s and units were permitted to update the M416 lights for safety reasons, although it doesn't appear to have been a command to do so.
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Always wanted - Details and pictures of M416 Trailer data plates & M151 data plates & body-tags for my research. Thanks!
Contact address - - muttguru@aol.com
Note for 2023..... Ken..."Less Stress - More Exercise!"
Re: 416 Questions
As a point of interest, just the other day I discovered that 416s were being manufactured in my home town in 1966, right under my very nose. The Johnson Furnace Company, 421 Monroe St. Bellevue, Ohio apparently had a contract. Not that I would have noticed it, as I was far too busy being a kid. I rode my Western Flyer bicycle past there a thousand times and never even noticed because, likely as not, they were being loaded straight onto railroad cars and whisked away. Even at a tender 7 years old, in a community the size of ours, if you had a bicycle the world was your oyster. Vietnam was going on whole-hog (as we would say back then) and for me, the war couldn't have seemed more distant...that is until my buddy's older brother came home in a box. What a horrible day. His mother came over and chewed my father out because he, being the local judge, didn't write up a deferment for the boy. My buddy's GI Joes got put away pretty quickly after that and it seemed we all grew up a little bit faster. Anyway, I think it would really be something to have one of those Bellevue-built trailers!