[Healeys] Trafficators

[Linwood Rose]

Yep, it is not properly called a trafficator. When I wrote my restoration article about it years ago, I had read something (I don’t recall what) that referred to it as a “control head.”
Lin

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> On Jun 28, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Fred Wescoe <fredwescoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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>> -----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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