Component looks out of place

[Mark Hennessy]

Sadly, they recently changed the blue plastic sleeve - it's no longer translucent, as shown in that photo, but a solid light blue. So they're not such a sympathetic replacement for restoration work, though still better much IMO than radials with their leads stretched across the gap between pads. Good job the originals are proving to be so reliable in the transistor sets I have.

Does the underside provide any clues? Such as a bunch of traces going to that switch that don't have an obvious other route... Or perhaps the designer just liked them? I could understand that