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Bob Eager wrote:
The handbrake (lever just behind the driver's left leg) operated a short
linkage to a dedicated drum brake on the back of the gearboxes (there
were two, the normal one and the transfer box). Bloody fierce.

Yup - that's because of the gearing between wheels and propshaft. Very
much to the advantage of that drum brake.

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*Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

Dave Plowman London SW
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