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1. Re: driving on the wrong side of the road (right :-) (score: 1)
Author: jeffreys_m_j@bt-web.bt.co.uk
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:21:16 +0100
What you are saying here is that driving on the left is natural for right handed people. Note that Japan also drives on the left. I have also heard that Europe was forced to drive/walk/ride on the ri
/html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00212.html (8,429 bytes)

2. Re: driving on the wrong side of the road (right :-) (score: 1)
Author: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@hermes.dlogics.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:40:17 CDT
Sigh... the reason we British don't honk at everyone else is simply because we have slightly better manners than everyone else. Uncle's Alvis came equipped with two horns: one normal horn for warning
/html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00221.html (7,724 bytes)

3. Re: driving on the wrong side of the road (right :-) (score: 1)
Author: "Chris Kent Kantarjiev" <cak@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 10:29:25 PDT
All the pieces of the story are there, but no one has put it together quite the way I heard it. Yes, the original idea was to ride on the left because most people were right handed, and thus the weap
/html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00251.html (7,672 bytes)

4. Re: driving on the wrong side of the road (right :-) (score: 1)
Author: sbender@dsd.es.com (Steve Bender)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 11:55:19 MDT
It is my understanding that the reason the British drive on the right dates back to the Roman centurian guards. The guards wore their arms on their left side and could not pass one another on the rig
/html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00254.html (7,295 bytes)


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