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Went for a wander and a coffee this afternoon and found this parked outside the coffee shop.

Beautifully restore with a hand traficator, but showing signs of being used and loved.

Never seen one before.



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Very familiar in my youth, our greengrocer had one, with an awning and staging on the flatbed. Fruit and veg displayed, he used to call round 2 days a week.

Most here have long rusted away, but in the warm salt free and mostly dry streets of Aus they clearly endure a bit better!


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Lovely Richard, and more, I envy your beautiful weather.....!πŸ˜‰πŸ‘


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Nice, seems to have taken the wiper delete option.

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Originally Posted By TimG
Nice, seems to have taken the wiper delete option.


In Perth WA it’s an option that would be rarely required

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Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a 'hand trafficator'?? Also, in the photo, there is a plate just below the window and vertically along the door hinge line that appears to be riveted or screwed on. What is this, it looks like it has a purpose??

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You put your hand out the windows to signal if you were going right or left still part of the Driving test I'm told in the 60's in the UK.

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It seems this K8 (?) got suicide doors and the plate below the side window is covering the place of the original door handle.

https://www.google.at/search?q=austin+k8


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Originally Posted By MarkB
Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a 'hand trafficator'??....

Cheers,

Before electric signal lights were in use many trucks (or lorries, if you prefer) had a sort of mechanical hand on an arm that was hinged able to indicate turn or stop (the stop signal doubled as turn left for right hand drive vehicles.

I could not find a decent photo but the one below will giive you the idea.



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Found some that show the idea better. The hand is moveable to be either straight out or up in the stop position.





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