I've just had my Trafficators apart again because the left hand signal didnâ??t
seem to be maintaining contact. Itâ??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 easyâ?¦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 â??Trafficatorâ??. Seems that the trafficators were
the little flip-up semaphore signals made by Lucas, and usually paired with
what they called the â??self cancelling switch assemblyâ??â?¦which is what we
Healey people now call a trafficator.
I guess, since they were originally paired, â??trafficatorâ?? slips off the
tongue more easily than "self cancelling switch assemblyâ?? !
Hoping I donâ??t have to take that thing apart again for a long timeâ?¦
Stephen, BJ8
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