<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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.”<div>Lin<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 28, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Fred Wescoe <<a href="mailto:fredwescoe@gmail.com">fredwescoe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Steve,</div><div><br></div><div>I have also always called "it" a <span style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none;background-color:transparent">"mayonet". The thing I have always called the "traficator" was always the swing out directional arm which can still be found on London cabs.</span></div><div><span style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none;background-color:transparent">Fred</span></div><div><span style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;float:none;background-color:transparent">66 BJ8</span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM BJ8Healeys <<a href="mailto:sbyers@ec.rr.com">sbyers@ec.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">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.....<br>
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Steve Byers<br>
HBJ8L/36666<br>
BJ8 Registry<br>
AHCA Delegate at Large<br>
Havelock, NC <br>
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From: Healeys [mailto:<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] On Behalf Of Stephen Hutchings<br>
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Subject: [Healeys] Trafficators<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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I guess, since they were originally paired, “trafficator” slips off the tongue more easily than "self cancelling switch assembly” !<br>
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Hoping I don’t have to take that thing apart again for a long time…<br>
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Stephen, BJ8<br>
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