Chummy sharter handle guides

[Mike Costigan]

Looking at period photos, I cannot find a single photo of a scoop-scuttle car with the handle in the horizontal position, whereas ACs onwards are regularly photographed with the handle horizontal; so maybe the cotter pin design originates from late 1924? That doesn't explain the later, more substantial, design without the slot, though, and you do seem to have an awful lot of very early examples, so that probably isn't the explanation!