At 04:25 PM 11/26/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I've read the other replies to this query, but I don't quite agree with
>them. The fly-off handle is a stock item. Most brakes ratchet as you
>pull them on, then you push a button to release them, holding the button
>down until the brake is fully off. The fly-off operates differently. You
>pull the brake on, then push the button to set the brake. When you want
>to release it, you simply pull up a bit more, let it go, and it "flies
>off."
>
>You can do hand brake turns nicely with it, as somebody else pointed out,
>and if you are doing a le Mans start, I suppose it saves a half second or
>so.
>
Correct as usual Ray. I was going to respond to the original post but
realised it had been covered fairly well in other responses. Regarding the
"stockness" I don't know about A's or later Magnettes but I believe all T's
and earlier did indeed leave Abingdon with fly-off handbrakes.
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