24-10-2019, 11:12 PM
Puzzling that a handbook from Longbridge should contain such an inaccurate piece of advice. A final effort before retiring was to take a few period handbooks and manuals down from the shelves, and referring to manual coil ignitions, retarding for starting is recommended by all. In the days of predatory lawyers, the PR department would have been told to quickly update the handbook before a flurry of cases dealing with injuries to wrists. Whilst I never want to sound bossy, on odd occasions I have felt moved to quietly suggest to some hand starters what many of us forumists were taught to do with our thumbs, NOT round the starting handle. A kicking back Seven may cause bruising but I will not be the only person to know what a National or JP Lister can do when in a bad mood for starting.