I have "flip up semaphore signals" on my '35 MG, and if you think the Healey
trafficator is a fiddle, you should try working on those. I have had both
apart and I will tackle the Healey unit any day of the week over those fiddley
old things on the MG.
After fixing the MG trafficators I commented to someone, I can't recall who,
that it is almost inconceivable that the country that produced them, 4 years
later produced the Spitfire. My friend pointed out that the Spitfire wasn't
expected to last more than a few weeks either.
Cheers, Mirek
-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Stephen
Hutchings
Sent: June-28-19 3:55 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Trafficators
I've just had my Trafficators apart again because the left hand signal didnâ??t
seem to be maintaining contact. Itâ??s working well now, but it is a fiendish
little device, and getting the lever back in with all the appropriate springs
in place is not easyâ?¦sort of like watch repair.
Anyway, I was looking at the original Lucas literature and it got me to
wondering why we call it a â??Trafficatorâ??. Seems that the trafficators were
the little flip-up semaphore signals made by Lucas, and usually paired with
what they called the â??self cancelling switch assemblyâ??â?¦which is what we
Healey people now call a trafficator.
I guess, since they were originally paired, â??trafficatorâ?? slips off the
tongue more easily than "self cancelling switch assemblyâ?? !
Hoping I donâ??t have to take that thing apart again for a long timeâ?¦
Stephen, BJ8
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