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1. Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: yd3@nvc.net; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:38:23 -0600; My theory: Bear with me for the first paragraph. LBC content coming. If you're only into the technical aspects of MGing you may just want to delete this. But if you also enjoy something more esoteric; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00076.html (10,080 bytes)
2. Re: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: TATERRY@aol.com; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:07:22 EST; Blake, all trains and rail transit systems in the U.S. travel on the right hand track......in the UK its the opposite. Terry /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00078.html (7,930 bytes)
3. Re: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: Mike Duvall <duvallcom@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:43:25 -0600; Try this site for the the history of why. Mike /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00079.html (7,804 bytes)
4. Re: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: CIAG6@aol.com; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:09:39 EST; So why is it that all the other European peoples who share a similar history to that of the Brits drive on the right? /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// ht; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00080.html (7,729 bytes)
5. Re: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:12:16 -0500; Old writings I've seen usually agree with your thoughts about right-handedness, swords hanging and all that. It's said that Europeans and the Brits all mounted horses and travelled on left side of t; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00081.html (8,402 bytes)
6. Re: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: sedgwickjames <sedgwickjames@clara.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:39:59 +0000; WE STILL DRIVE ON THE LEFT! This should explain why. In days of old logic dictated that when people passed each other on the road they should be in the best possible position to use their sword to pr; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00082.html (11,594 bytes)
7. Re: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:02:03 -0600; Our weapon of choice protecting the wagon or stagecoach was a shotgun or rifle. Right-handed people hold the long gun on the lap, pointed to the left, so we pass on the right, so as to have the weapo; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00083.html (8,842 bytes)
8. RE: Why do (or did) the British drive on the left. (score: 1): Author: "Douglas Ormrod" <Douglas.Ormrod@neurological.org.nz>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:17:45 +1300; Sort of related. I read a British motoring memoir a few years ago - can't remember who it was by. At one point in the 1920sthe guy had been a chauffeur to a titled lady who insisted her Roller was wa; /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00084.html (8,070 bytes)

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