Parking Brake vs (P) Brake Light?

I have been slowly restoring the D90, noticed the other day that I had an older handbrake lever but the original handbrake bracket.

No wonder the handbrake light has never worked.

Pressed the switch a few times, "Hmmm nothing".

Pulled the spade connector off the switch and grounded it to the bracket. "Bingo! Wait, huh?"

Whats the difference between the Park Brake light and the (P) brake light as visible in the picture below?

http://s422.photobucket.com/user/shauniedawn/media/Defender 90 200TDI/DSC_9270.jpg.html?t=1271632856

The (P) is the park brake light
The (!) is low fluid warning

timtheenchanteruk said:

The (P) is the park brake light
The (!) is low fluid warning

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So close.....but no cigar.

Lets see if this modified image helps clarify.

The "(!) BRAKE" light is a low fluid warning. Confusion arises as on most cars nowadays the same light comes on with the handbrake.
(P) is normally the handbrake light. May not be connected- mine didn't come with a switch installed at the lever.
"PARK BRAKE" is listed in the handbook for mine (1988) as Australia only. I presume at the time Australian legislation demanded a different warning light to everywhere else.

Out of interest, the light in the bottom left corner shows a truck with a tilted cab- a relic from the abortive "Llama" forward control project. On mine it's wired up as a bonnet open warning light. The middle one (below the <- -> indicator light) shows a gear with an exclamation mark. Presumably this is intended for a transmission fluid overheat warning for automatics.

I'd probably make use of the redundant PARK BRAKE light if I was doing an automatic conversion. That would become the handbrake warning, with the normal (P) light being used to indicate that park was selected on the transmission.