Abstract: A gear shift indicator for an automatic gear change in a motor vehicle comprising a gear lever pivotally mounted within a housing for movement in and along an elongated slot in the surface portion of said housing and into a number of predetermined positions, said surface portion having a window adjacent said slot, through which window is visible one of a series of legible characters carried on a movable indicator member located within said housing adjacent said surface portion, each legible character corresponding to a respective one of said predetermined positions, there being a movable member coupled between said gear lever and said movable indicator member in a movement-increasing arrangement that has a ratio of movement between the characters on the movable indicator member and the gear lever of more than 1 to 1, the spacing of the characters on said indicator member being such that, when the gear lever is in each of said predetermined positions, the corresponding character is visible through said window.