[Healeys] Trafficators

[Fred Wescoe]

Steve,

I have also always called "it" a "mayonet".  The thing I have always called
the "traficator" was always the swing out directional arm which can still
be found on London cabs.

Fred
66 BJ8

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM BJ8Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:

> 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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