On looking at the cleaned up version of the rear axle I agree with
@Communicator regarding the centre rod type thing on the rusted axle, there is such a variety of handbrake cable versions and from a quick look at the the rusted one to me it appeared to pass below the beam, but on the cleaned up version fitted that couldn't be the case (maybe I should have gone to specsavers
), regarding the aftermarket type brackets it may depend what type of cable/s fitted, if it was a one piece cable going around the horse shoe compensator then without a slot they couldn't be used, but if it is two separate cables the eyes could pass through leaving the outer cables held in the hole in the L brackets.
This would of course cause a problem when trying to use the horse shoe type currently fitted to the threaded bar in the photos.
Perhaps
@tomj25 could confirm how the outer part of the front end of the handbrake cables are secured, from my view of the fitted parts it looks to me that there is a outer cable secured with a shiny bolt at the back plate, but the routing towards where it comes out of the holes in the chassis plate don't look to match the direction forward?
So two things.
1\ Am I correct it is a one piece cable that fits two both brake assemblies presumably like the original?
2\ How is the front ends of the outer cables fitted, are they in their original bolt holes and if so would that be where those two L shaped brackets are used?
At the end of the day was the handbrake cable/s supplied with the fitting kit of brackets from the same people, as it looks to be for different systems.