- 1. driving on Right/Left? (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:34:22 -0400
- So why exactly did some parts of the world end up driving on the left side of the road and others on the right? Please, no Lucas turn signal stories! Tanks, -- Jim Muller jimmuller@pop.rcn.com '80 Sp
- /html/triumphs/2004-07/msg00787.html (6,322 bytes)
- 2. Re: driving on Right/Left? (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:53:50 -0700
- Perhaps apocryphal but I have heard it was due to Napoleon's army marching on the right... thus areas of the world conquered by the Napoleonic army implemented right-hand traffic. Then there were the
- /html/triumphs/2004-07/msg00790.html (7,085 bytes)
- 3. Re: driving on Right/Left? (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:02:05 +0100
- I understand that in days gone by horsemen/footsoldiers rode/walked on the left of a track/roadway so that their sword hand was instantly available to attack a potential enemy approaching from the ot
- /html/triumphs/2004-07/msg00793.html (7,066 bytes)
- 4. driving on Right/Left? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:34:22 -0400
- So why exactly did some parts of the world end up driving on the left side of the road and others on the right? Please, no Lucas turn signal stories! Tanks, -- Jim Muller jimmuller@pop.rcn.com '80 Sp
- /html/triumphs/2004-07/msg01617.html (6,918 bytes)
- 5. Re: driving on Right/Left? (score: 1)
- Author: Geo Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:53:50 -0700
- Perhaps apocryphal but I have heard it was due to Napoleon's army marching on the right... thus areas of the world conquered by the Napoleonic army implemented right-hand traffic. Then there were the
- /html/triumphs/2004-07/msg01620.html (7,627 bytes)
- 6. Re: driving on Right/Left? (score: 1)
- Author: "dixie" <dixie4@wales.freeserve.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:02:05 +0100
- I understand that in days gone by horsemen/footsoldiers rode/walked on the left of a track/roadway so that their sword hand was instantly available to attack a potential enemy approaching from the ot
- /html/triumphs/2004-07/msg01623.html (7,629 bytes)
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