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compu, very informative! The valve body had always been a mystery to me, though I've spent decades around cars. It's not uncommon for me to run across busted transmissions (as in outwardly busted, from impacts) and peering inside at that valve body is akin to peering into an open skull!
Tom, I know the '50 Cadillac I had, with Hydramatic, used a dash mounted push button for the starter. Packard and Buick used accelerator mounted starter switches. On my Packard (which I just sold) there was a switch mounted on the back of the carburetor with a ball bearing or two in it. (I know that because I temporarily lost one on the ground one day while taking things apart.) I forget just how it knows not to engage the starter at full throttle once started, but it knows. Worked quite well. Mine was a manual with overdrive and the linkage also had to control the kick-down mechanism for that.
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Bryan
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