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Does anybody know, how first Pobeda speedometer (band type) looks like?

For the very first Pobedas, i.e production before 1947 or so-called 1st generation Pobedas, there was mounted a speedometer taken almost exactly from early GAZ 51. It was not the ordinary speedometer familiar from the latest GAZ-51A (with round scales) since 1956 but it looked like a speedometer of ZIS-150 having all rectangular-shaped scales behind a common glass. For Pobedas with such a speedometer it was spoken that there wasn\'t place for a radio.

I.e. the statement of Korgits for a speedometer is not true for the very first Pobedas, but it is true for early mass-production Pobedas. I suppose that there was produced only some hundred Pobedas with the old type speedometer. I havn\'t seen this car, I affraid that no one of them hasn\'t preserved at all.

Somewhen before 1948 (probably already in 1947), i.e somewhen the mass-production appeares, there appeared the new-type round speedometer and clock with a place of radio. The radio hole was covered by the trap-door bearing the script \"Avtozavod imeni Molotova\".
This type (design) of speedometer has remained unchanged until the 1955 when for the 3rd generation Pobedas there was designed a newly-look-liked speedometer.

Therefore, the speedometer for 1st generation (excluding very first cars) and 2nd gerenation Pobedas was the same. It was charaterized with the rectangular-shaped light-green numbers on the red background. But the red background color wasn\'t quite good and bleached quite fast. It was changed by the years into the ordinary white or yellow-white tone. For more than 95% of speedometers I have seen, the red has completly bleached and only for a few well-preserved ones the red has retained its\' original color.

You can see examples of 1st and 2nd generation speedometers from http://gaz20.spb.ru/img/gages.jpg (note that there only thr round ones are from 2nd generation, the rectangular one is from 3rd generation), from http://gaz20.spb.ru/img/gearbox.jpg and also from http://www.pilt.ee/i/p/2/82/0124882284a8e7.jpg .

For comparison - 3rd generation Pobeda\'s speedomeeter is presented http://gaz20.spb.ru/img/clock.jpg