[TR] Handbrake warning light

[John Macartney]

Hi, Randall
Too many painful memories of driving sidescreen TR's and that
stupidly positioned handbrake! As some may know, it was in the same location
on RHD cars and became agonisingly painful on the left leg after an hour (or
less) of driving. Yet another classic example of bad design and cost cutting.
It wouldn't have required a number ten size hat in engineering terms to have
put it on the other side of the transmission tunnel - but they didn't and we
sold many many RHD cars in RH steer overseas markets. I missed the beginning
of this thread and I don't ever recall the question being raised before about
a warning light being 'desirable' on a sidescreener Triumph. What's the
difficulty? Is it the siting of the brake or the oddities of the fly-off
mechanism? After all, a brake is a brake. You release it before driving away.
Hardly rocket science. <smiley>

Jonmac

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