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Originally Posted by rotorwrench
The armored cable was designed to protect the wire against heat (cylinder head) and tampering (hot wire for theft). It has a spring loaded terminal that makes contact with the ignition breaker components inside the distributor. The breaker plate & condenser parts have to be like the original components for the spring loaded terminal to make good contact with the components in there. If it has a different points plate with modern type breaker points & condenser then a wire will have to be connected to them internally.
On the armored cable data plate, only a certain run of those ignition components had that feature. The time frame was some what short lived.
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The cable data plate was used from the beginning of production thru Sept.1930..