[Healeys] Trafficators

BJ8Healeys sbyers at ec.rr.com
Fri Jun 28 16:00:49 MDT 2019


Stephen, I gave up trying to get people to quit calling the assembly a "trafficator".  Somewhere along the line years ago, I picked up the term "mayonet" for the same thing but I can't find the source for that now.  Google is no help.  If you can't beat, 'em, join 'em.....

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA Delegate at Large
Havelock, NC  



-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Hutchings
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 3:55 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Trafficators

I've just had my Trafficators apart again because the left hand signal didn’t seem to be maintaining contact. It’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 easy…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 “Trafficator”. Seems that the trafficators were the little flip-up semaphore signals made by Lucas, and usually paired with what they called the “self cancelling switch assembly”…which is what we Healey people now call a trafficator.

I guess, since they were originally paired, “trafficator” slips off the tongue more easily than "self cancelling switch assembly” !

Hoping I don’t have to take that thing apart again for a long time…

Stephen, BJ8




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