... control the amount of blade movement and hence the open tip gap. What the Midland specifically did needs someone with more specialist knowledge than I. I know the Midland avoided them like the plague, but arranging a facing point lock without a tie bar at the switch blade tips would be difficult. Regards Tony. posted: 19 Oct 2017 15:29 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tim, Here is a drawing of a MR 15ft switch. It shows the rodding connection attached to the front stretcher rod as a dashed line: 2_191021_380000001.png High-res version of this here: gallery/2 /original/2_191021_380000001.png Here is the text from Allen (1915) which explains that there is "in all cases" a lug on the front stretcher rod to act as a pull rod: 2_191021_370000000.png Lots more there about the design of the stretcher rod fixings and cotter pins if you want it? regards, Martin. posted: 19 Oct 2017 16:02 from: Tim Lee Martin Wynne wrote: Hi Tim, Here is a drawing of a MR 15ft ...