A little inside track info here, if it helps?
The fly-off brake stayed on the TR for longer than the other cars
because the purists liked it. However, it was not so widely accepted
on GT6 and Spitfire as they were much later introductions. Depending
on market, Herald sports derivatives had fly-offs (or not) as line
fit.
The fly-off demise was this. Many people started with a Spitfire and
then upgraded to a TR. Having got
used to the more conventional mechanism, it didn't take long for the
current type of release to become preferred and the
fly-off brake began to be seen as a sales detraction for the TR. The
prime objection to its continuing fitment came mostly from North
America.
I suppose the moral is that a manufacturer has to provide what the
customer *thinks* he or she requires. With this mod in place, the
Parts Division continued to offer a fly-off conversion for a while but
the pricing for a simple kit was so horrendous that it was eventually
withdrawn.
>From memory, the fly-off/non fly-off build mix was about 50/50 across
all markets for sports cars, so abandoning the former was not done
primarily on the grounds of cost but customer acceptance.
Jonmac
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