My friend didn't say any thing about the cable fitting, just that it looked the part and worked. I will be seeing him this Saturday I will have to ask him.
As they weren't very expensive I thought I'd purchase one. The pitch of the mounting matches my repo bracket, but they are inline with the drive spindle. :( Oh well another bracket to make or an adaptor plate.
The cable fitting is metric, but by luck I have a cable that's metric one end and imperial the other end.
If it works it's a cheap temporary one until someone donates me an original ;)