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The overseer button allow the use of the hand brake when running .
I suppose the brake is strong enough to do that.
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Given that the Morgan was twice the price of our Audi and the Audi hand brake is fantastic it is very disappointing especially as the car has been through the recall and had to have a new radiator has has only done about 3000 miles since new.
The Citroën 2CV I bought in 1985, had inboard front disk brakes and a parking brake acting on the front disks. This was the cheapest new car on the market in Norway at the time, and the parking brake worked as it should. It even had its own calipers and brake pads to make it an independent emergency brake. Harald
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Harald,same front brake/handbrake set-up on the Citrroen GS Club I bought in the seventies
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Same on our Ami 8, brilliantly effective as is the Land Rover drum hand brake on the prop shaft..
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Richard, I well remember the LR propshaft drum.. (-: Jaguar and Lotus handbrakes operating on rear discs were ever a sourse of frustration as they aged.
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My lovely old volvo 1800es in the seventies had discs all round and a seperate drum brake system for the handbrake. Worked well.
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Nick, the drum in disc handbrake set-up has been used in 911,s for decades, and still in use on my 991 and srill working "well." 
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... brilliantly effective as is the Land Rover drum hand brake on the prop shaft.. So long as you only use it as a parking brake. Apply while moving and you will have a vehicle jumping about and often breaking a half shaft.
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Same on our Ami 8, brilliantly effective as is the Land Rover drum hand brake on the prop shaft.. On the Citroën the inboard discs, or drums on my first 2CV, also kept the unsprung weight on the front down. This at the cost of all the braking force passing through driveshafts though.
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... brilliantly effective as is the Land Rover drum hand brake on the prop shaft.. So long as you only use it as a parking brake. Apply while moving and you will have a vehicle jumping about and often breaking a half shaft. The transmission brake on early Discoveries worked well for parking as it works on all four wheels although if you put the transfer box in neutral, you have no handbrake at all. You could only ever use it once as an emergency brake when moving as it tended to break the prop shaft UJs. You then had a huge problem as you had no handbrake & leaving it in gear had no effect.
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