Lionel Morris and Essex passenager cars of the 1950 and LED

Lay a strip in on the floor and see how it looks setting the car back together.

I'd have to see how the roof is made to judge if you could install on the roof, I'm not familiar with those cars.

One thing to keep in mind for metal surfaces.  The end of the strips where you make the connection can short to the metal surface, that would be a bad thing.  In metal cars, I put a small piece of Kapton tape under the connection area.

Dear John

Thanks for the installation tip.

Here are some pictures of the car.

I don't see any reason to not put them on the roof. A set of three between each bracket would seem to fit. grj also uses(and I do now) the snap board connectors to create plugs. That way you can disconnect the roof lights for removal of the roof and the driver is mounted to the floor.

grj, any pics of that stuff? The one thread from old was deleted for some reason.

Here's a picture of a one conductor model.  I do the same thing for multi-conductor connections, just expand the idea.  Unless they're a lot of pins, I normally stick to a single row as it's simpler to build.

Male end.

Female End.

Here's the raw materials as I buy them, I just cut single contacts out of these.