Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:30:14 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: REPOST: Vintage SAAB Quiz: What's wrong with this picture?
in article IDIo68.5urnospamove.se, Goran Larsson at hohnospamlid.invalid wrote on 17/03/2005 22:08: > In article <4239C25C.BCB2E007nospamssssssssizefitter.com>, > Johannes H Andersen <johsnospamssssssssizefitter.com> wrote: > >> Notice the Steering wheel side, the >> Swedes were driving on the left in those days. > > We did drive on the wrong side (left) before 1967, but just to be > different from everybody else our cars had the steering wheel on > the left side. How was the swap over to driving of the RHS of the road done? Was there a specific time on a specific day when people swapped over? What if you were driving on the right/wrong side at that time? How did the road signs get dealt with? It's something that really interests me. In the UK, you'll know we drive on the left, but if you watch people walking down corridors or climbing stairs then they almost always gravitate to the right. I've not been abroad very much, but last time we were in Sweden, we were given a ride around Stockholm by an online friend (one of the STCS Stockholm people) in his fast 900 Aero. Out of town (like, around Dj¸rgarden), a lot of the roads didn't have central markings and were quite narrow - I had a few scares when he darted to quite the opposite side of oncoming cars that I would :o I like to think it was because I was sitting in my normal driver's seat but not driving ... Really, it was because he was giving his Jorgen Erikson 4 speed gearbox a "good thrashing" ... Legal speeds, of course :)))) Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/
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