Re: SER1 English/American

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From: Toby Wilkinson
Subject: Re: SER1 English/American
Date: 13:53 on 22 Sep 2004

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 04:47, Diana Alan wrote:

> And  Were European knights all left handed and
> therefore drove on the right, except in Sweden when they swapped over sides
> in the 1970's to conform to the rest of continental Europe?

My understanding was that the French originated driving on the right due to a 
left handed leader (Napolian IIRC, but I wouldn't swear to it) insisting on 
everyone riding on the right hand side of the road, so that he would be at an 
advantage. And that from then on it spread. However the English love to blame 
things on the French, so it may not true.

--Toby (Who now has an MoT, and working flashing brake lights :-)

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