Thanks for your input Juan.
What you say makes sense so we'll take our programmer and have another look.
The micro switch on the direction lever stays active in netural, and doesn't lose its control until re-selecting forward drive - so eliminates that as a possibility.
Don't suppose you would have a wiring diagram for that machine ?
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