Abstract: In a motion transmitting device for controlling an internal combustion engine by means of an accelerator pedal wherein a pedal position transmitter mounted on a support bracket includes a control lever mounted for rotation with a drive shaft extending from the pedal position transmitter, a return coil spring is disposed on the control lever coaxially with the drive shaft and has one end engaged with the control lever and the other with the support bracket and a pull member is attached to the control lever for imparting thereto the motion of the accelerator pedal wherein the pull member is so arranged that a pulling force is applied to the control lever along a line which is parallel to the direction of the force applied to the bracket by the coil spring but is in the opposite direction.