[Healeys] Swedish Austin Healey Club Annual Meet

[Ulla & Sven Ordell]

You are quite right Magnus,
nearly all cars sold in Sweden were LHD in the drive left days. My
understanding is that it turned into the normal way of doing things in the
1920s and 30s when a majority of cars were American imports. Also much less
traffic meant that the disadvantage of sitting on the wrong side was less
than it appears to be.

Sven
Sweden

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Fvr Magnus Karlsson
Skickat: den 11 juni 2012 20:50
Till: Derek Job
Kopia: healeys at autox.team.net
Dmne: Re: [Healeys] Swedish Austin Healey Club Annual Meet

Strange thing is that the vast majority of cars being sold as new in Sweden
were LHD even in the times when we used to drive on the left. As I'm too
young to have been driving at that time, before '67, I have asked older
people how this could have been but no one seems to know. Even stranger is
that the majority of English cars imported in those times used to be LHD.

Magnus Karlsson

www.concourshealeys.com

11 jun 2012 kl. 18:57 skrev Derek Job <derek.c.job at gmail.com>:

> Interesting comment about RHD and LHD cars. New cars sold to Sweden
> will, I
think, have been RHD as the Swedes used to drive on the left at that time.
>
> Derek
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, <ATIGHTPROD at aol.com> wrote:
> Nice job! I especially like the Black BJ9 with the "fin" on the back!
> Seriously though, very nice and fun. Good mixture of right and left
> hand
drive
> cars and it appears fun was had by all! Thanks!
> Steven Kingsbury
> BN1 #598
>
> In a message dated 6/11/2012 12:15:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> magnuskarlsson at bornet.net writes:
>
> I have  posted a slideshow from the Swedish Healey Club meet held last
> weekend.
> It4s composed of stills and moving images in a mix.
>
> If you  are interested in watching it please click the following  link:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ck97dvz
>
> Magnus  Karlsson
> www.concourshealeys.com
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