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Actually, from the several times I've visited the UK, I've noticed that the cars I've rented there still have the turn signal on the left and the windshield wipers on the right. I'm guessing it's due to European car manufacturers having to design cars for both sides of the road, and that's one way they can keep the same parts and thus the costs down.
Australia is a different story. Their cars have the turn signal on the right and wipers on the left. I drove around Cairns for perhaps two days while "indicating" with my windshield wipers :11:
Maybe, she is vexed?Where is almightywife? I would have thought that she would be defending those drive on the left folks? She started this with her comment in the metric thread. Is she sleeping, or gone diving?
Actually in England it was because the King decreed it to keep folks from getting run over by the coach traffic. IN France and other countries it was because Napolean declared his troops would march that way.
Mike