[Healeys] Trafficators

[Patrick & Caroline Quinn]

Hello

 

I have trafficators (or semaphores) on our ’48 Healey Duncan and indicators on the 100 BN3.

 

Hoo Roo

 

Patrick Quinn

Blue Mountains, Australia

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Fred Wescoe
Sent: Saturday, 29 June 2019 8:28 AM
To: BJ8Healeys
Cc: healeys
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Trafficators

 

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  



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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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