I've seen this a few times on late 1500s (but not all) It's normally secured to one of the down pipe to manofold nuts via a small egg shaped plate with 2 holes in it, a 5/16" hole for the stud/nut and a pinhole for the spring.
However, since ALL these late cars had concentric return springs on the throttle butterfly spindles, the extra spring is largely redundant! I'll check this when I see you on Thursday and investigate the fast idle.
A cautionary tale! A couple of months ago, I was asked to repair a badly split bulkhead on the well known (in club circles) 1500HL UGH SLOW. Which I duly did and added an auto type bulkhead stiffener bracket as a precaution. Having completed the immediate task, upon testing, the reason for the excessive spitting became obvious, the throttle was so stiff, it could hardly be moved!
This was caused by a combination of factors, mainly a maladjusted throttle cable and linkage which ruined the quadrant operation, but also, someone had fitted a much heavier duty spring in this location. The combination of the 2 faults made the car almost undriveable, but once i'd binned the spring and set up the cable and linkages correctly it was fine, with a free and light throttle operation.
Steve
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