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RE: RHD Shifting

To: Kris Cotton <krisc@pi.bns.com.au>
Subject: RE: RHD Shifting
From: "Scott D. Sanders" <ssanders@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 02:07:40 -0600 (CST)
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> No it just means that as RHD was better and in production first the "yanks
> had to be different even if they were wrong :-) and changed it over I can't
> help it if you drive on the wrong side of the car & the street for that
> matter or was it that the designs from one side of the world were redrawn by
> a dyslexic person who transposed the driving position????

my personal favorite worst (oxymoron alert!) shift pattern is a 1970 LHD
international truck, i think from canada... 


     2  4  1

     3  5  R 

this is licensed for 48000 pounds, and is easily overloaded with grain. 
sure makes for an awkward first-second shift...
  
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