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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/7/2018 7:35 PM, Sherman D Taffel
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<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial,
sans-serif; color: #333333;">Hi Guys! Probably diagram was for
RHD cars! Never changed for LHD cars!</p>
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Having done technical publications for well more than a decade,
that's probably not exactly what happened. The photo shows LHD, not
RHD, but, maybe the RHD negative was reversed to save time, and
something was then lost when translating the positions of all the
controls. After all, this was done well before the days of digital
imaging and PhotoShop--even copiers were new and relatively
rudimentary. All imaging was done through old-fashioned photography
and manual paste-up transferred to rotogravure or offset printing.<br>
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The truth is that the time of most in-house technical publications
shops is taken up with the most pressing changes, because, apart
from the aerospace industry, they're severely understaffed. Stuff
that superficially looks okay gets a quick review and a pass. Only
when I started running publications for a transit manufacturer did I
realize that the maintenance manuals hadn't been updated front page
to back in a dozen years, and that the books were riddled with
errors. I logged untold unpaid hours of overtime fixing such
problems and still didn't catch them all. The best I could do was
triage--getting the most important items fixed first.<br>
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That's the way it actually works--in large part, the customer is
left to figure out the missed details and adjust accordingly.<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Michael Porter
Roswell, NM
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....</pre>
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