Very good bet. It's definitely set up for signal amplification as I said above...could be for a siren or loudspeaker, which would have the single switch at the dash making sense. Cool mystery. Devon
I don't know what it is but I know what I'd do with it:Brow: ...attach a 110v. electrical cord to it and let my x-mother-in-law plug it into the wall :kodak: SMILE MOM!!!
Send your description and the photos to Al Gore's website. I bet anything he invented it; probably to halt global cooling in the seventies.