We owe left hand drive to Henry Ford. When the Model T came out, US cars had
both left and right hand drive. Henry decided that he would build the Model T
with left hand drive and since he built so many of them, the country
standardized on left hand drive. Remember, old Henry was building 1 million
cars per year when the TOTAL of all other manufacturers was less then 100,000.
Jan Eyerman
Bill Mounce <bmounce@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Chuck, the story I always heard was that it comes from them riding
horses on the left hand side of a trail, so that when they came upon
another traveler, their right hand (as most people are righties) was
free to draw a gun or sword, if need be. This begs the question, why
are Americans left hand drive?? My wife, who is British, would say,
Just to be contrary! Bill
chuck nicodemus wrote:
> Why do the British have right hand drive?
> chuck
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