[Healeys] Trafficators

[Mirek Sharp]

I have  "flip up semaphore signals" on my '35 MG, and if you think the Healey trafficator is a fiddle, you should try working on those.  I have had both apart and I will tackle the Healey unit  any day of the week over those fiddley old things on the MG.

After fixing the MG trafficators  I commented to someone, I can't recall who, that it is almost inconceivable that the country that produced them, 4 years later produced the Spitfire.  My friend pointed out that the Spitfire wasn't expected  to last more than a few weeks either.

Cheers,  Mirek


-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Hutchings
Sent: June-28-19 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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