[Healeys] The little rubber strap

[Greg Mandas]

Could we get a picture?

--- On Thu, 6/2/11, Editorgary at aol.com
<Editorgary at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Editorgary at aol.com <Editorgary at aol.com>
>
Subject: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
>
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 12:55 PM
> In a message dated 6/2/11 9:46:49 AM,
> healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
> 
> 
> > It is a shy little rubber
strap about 4 inches
> long.  It went
> > strapped that wire wrapped lead from
engine to temp
> gauge in the dash
> > to the heater hose.  I think they were
discarded
> rapidly when engines
> > were serviced or repaired. A long time
ago I sent it
> to Roger Moment
> > who had duplicates made as he said it was
a really
> rare bird.  What
> > is amazing is that it has a patent !!!!!
> >
>
> When I first saw that strap, I thought it looked familiar
> from my
childhood
> spending my days in the back of my dad's bicycle shop, and
> later
Norman
> Nock confirmed it, not from his past car experience but
> from having
been a
> cyclist all his life. We both remembered first seeing that
> strap on
Humber and
> Raleigh bicycles, holding the rear handbrake cable to the
> frame
of the
> bicycle. I'm betting that when they first encountered the
> problem
of having
> the
> temp sensor cable fouling whatever it might foul in the
>
engine compartment,
> Roger Menadue went over to his bicycle and pulled the
strap
> off of it,
> determined that it would work, and then they told BMC to
> order a couple of
> thousand
> from whomever supplied them to Humber and
Raleigh.
> Gary