My 54 1 ton had a dash mounted hand throttle.  I used it as an ancient cruise control.  Problem was max. highway speed.  45 mph and around 4500 rpm.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

My 52 F-2 pickup that I got from my Grandpa had a hand thottle on it from the factory, I used it a ferw times for loading up hay bales as mentioned in an earlier post. And also to hand pick sweet corn too.

     

Michael

Sandy Valley, NV

  Ford cars had locking columns 'till '47.

Y-Guys:     My grandfather told me a lot of the trucks, back in the day,

           had a dash mount or ? throttle that a farmer could use to put the

           vehicle in "granny" low, pull the throttle out a "fuzz" and he could

           walk behind the truck and throw out hay or whatever for the cows...

                Also as mentioned earlier, a lot of vehicles had pto's to

          run pumps etc...         

                                            Bill

Bill

Pelham,Al

I have a 70 Bronco that has a factory hand throttle in it.  It was for using the winch and wouldn't work well in my opinion for driving the rig.

Yes I had a '38 PU with a hand throttle and hand choke. Not to change the subject, but it also had a locking steering column... And yes it was stock.

BOB

FORD's had pull out hand throttle's in cars up to '48, trucks at least into the '50's. Intended mainly for fast idle warm up.

Early Fords (30's) had both a hand choke and a hand throttle. I'm not sure when these stopped.

54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

I bought a '53 Ford pickup in '71 that had a throttle pull on it. It was cool for about 2 trips on the highway. Took it out. I thought at first someone used the choke cable and rigged one up but this had a hole in the dashon the left side of the radio. Only one I have ever seen. 

55Birdman  Hickory NC

Turns out the country's largest (?) van conversion outfit is only a few miles away. I should just drop by and nose around.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA