Thanks for that Sierrafery, I greatly appreciate your help. I totally agree yours is doing the same thing, but mine didn't do this until about a month ago. The brakes work fine, but I still find it disconcerting and am determined to fix it!
Now I have a new problem - the brake lights stay on all the time with the ignition on! The switch is fine, but the rod out of the new servo is not allowing the pedal to come high enough to push the switch. The rod to the cylinder piston looks as if the end unscrews for adjustment, but not the pedal end. Neither the plastic switch or the body mounting have any adjustment. The free play is roughly the same as before. I'm not in a great rush to take the whole lot apart again! All I can think of doing is to build up the button on the switch with Araldite!