Are these for a 1960s Lincoln convertible?

[Pete Phillips]

Can someone identify these electric motors and rams for me, please? The only electrically-powered convertible top I can think of is the 1960s four-door Lincolns and the Thunderbird convertibles; maybe the '57-'59 Ford Starliners?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Pete Phillips

Leonard, Texas

 

[m-mman]

As I look at them I am seeing the motors for a power seat system, (4 way) but I cant remember the application. 

The link without the spring moves it forward and back the link with the spring moves it up and down. 

Edited December 13, 2017 by m-mman (see edit history)

[Pete Phillips]

m-mman, that makes a lot more sense than being part of a top mechanism. The rams don't look long enough or strong enough to move a convertible top. The deceased man who owned these parts had a 1964 Lincoln convertible and also a 1967 Buick Electra convertible, so perhaps these are for the power seat in one of those cars? Anyone else have a suggestion or confirmation? Thanks again.

Pete Phillips

[m-mman]

Buick I dont know.  (but 1967 would have been a 6 way seat)

They are NOT 1964 Lincoln. 

My guess is that they are from the early 1950s (Not much later than 1957) 

 

The first power accessories (windows and seat) in the late 1940s were hydraulic which became problematic over time. In the 1952+ years there was experimentation to move to electromechanical.  It is expensive to use two separate motors (one for up/down and one for forward/back) By the middle 50s they learned how to use one motor to provide the two different motions. 

[Pete Phillips]

The plastic covered wiring would appear to put it in the mid-1950s or later 1950s. Just remembered that the former owner also had a 1954 Buick Roadmaster--those use plastic covered wiring, I believe, so possibly for that car. Thanks for helping to point in the right direction.

Pete

 

[John]

What is stamped on the motors if anything?