Thread: 3 pin trailer plug

I would say one is for stop lights , one for tail lights & the other is earth. There wern't many vehicles with indicators back then & most had traficators

Originally Posted by 1950landy

I would say one is for stop lights , one for tail lights & the other is earth. There wern't many vehicles with indicators back then & most had traficators

Nah mate one earth , the other splice into the blinker loom with a one bullet plug to two, left ,right blinker ..auto sparks loom, it’s kinda like a mini loom of the main loom

I'm not sure how many pins the original trailer socket had, there is still one on the rear crossmember of my Series I but there is also a 7-pin modern round one.

I'd think that someone has added this 'in period', the idea of earth, brakes & tail lights makes sense so yours has possibly been modified.

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Colin

I am pretty certain my Series 1 had a five pin rubber socket, but I never had a plug to fit it. As noted above, it would have been tail, stop, earth only - blinkers (and trafficators) were not legal in Australia during most of Series 1 production, and were not fitted to new Landrovers in Australia until well into Series 2a production. And I have never seen a Series Landrover with trafficators except one or two at Cooma, although I have seen pictures.

In Queensland if blinkers were fitted to a vehicle it was illegal to use them until about 1961. Trafficators were never legal. Hand signals were required. Very small trailers like those Lightburn trolleys originally did not have any lights.

Originally Posted by mfc

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It looks like the old dry cell battery socket from old broadcast radios. I have the 3-pin plugs to fit those.

I've got the remnants of a 3-pin plug on the back of my 80". The parts are listed on the 'chassis' page in the 80" parts manual. The socket is listed on the 'Brockhouse ' trailer page.
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Originally Posted by p38arover

It looks like the old dry cell battery socket from old broadcast radios. I have the 3-pin plugs to fit those.

As a ham radio fiend I should have spotted that 3 brown twisted cloth covered cables