Uncoupled brakes conversion?

[Tony Griffiths]

I once saw a Chummy where the flexi-brackets had been replaced by a pair of plumber blocks, like these with self-aligning bearings to accommodate chassis flex. Another trick is to brace the flexi brackets with a strut to the cross-shaft. In 1965, seeing that the offside bracket was starting to tear away from the chassis, I made up a two-part, screw-together tube with a slot at one end to locate against the bracket and turned the two parts to push the bracket back into place. It stayed there for the next 120,000 + miles.