Springtime!

[Try-umf 0]

1936 Triumph Gloria rear brakes

It's springtime! Not quite perhaps but I would like to know how or where this spring fits (circled in yellow, part #5167) and its purpose. I am aware they are handed and that it must hold something in place. The brakes came to me disassembled so I have never seen them on the backplate. My best guess so far is also shown. To me it does not feel right, the shorter curved end looks as though it should wrap around or rest against something.

[Aiberdonian 98]

Try-umph,

It has been a while since I did the rear brakes on my Gloria and I can't really remember where that spring fits but it is there to pull against the hand brake cable which connects to the slot on the lower arm so it must push against the lower arm just above the slot .
It certainly does not fit against the cross arm which pushes against the shoes.
I would offer to take a look at mine but it is - 8 deg C at the moment and does not look like rising above zero for a few days.

[Try-umf 0]

Thanks - for the info.  With the parts book refering to it as 'spring push rod' I thought it may refer to the bar that pushes the two shoes apart when the handbrake is applied. The problem I have is that I can not see a way of th espring actually making its way to the handbrake                 ctuating arm if it sits on the pivot as the coil in the spring suggests. 

[Aiberdonian 98]

I found my spare handbrake mechanism and spring today but I still can't remember how it is assembled, it was 2006 when I did the rear brakes before finding the ash frame was in need of repair and was another 10 years before I found the time needed to get it done.
It looks as though the temperature is going up a bit at the weekend, I'll take a wheel and brake drum off and let you know. The old fingers don't like the cold these days.