Re: Grain binder Cutting Question

Posted by cdmn on August 07, 2006 at 22:11:21 from (66.228.228.167):

In Reply to: Grain binder Cutting Question posted by Frank in Sask on August 07, 2006 at 16:44:27:

Some tractors required you to use the right hand for the clutch, throttle, steering etc. It was easier to look back over your left shoulder. Fordson used the right foot pedal for the clutch until 1952. Same reasoning. Case used a left hand clutch lever, others used left side clutch pedal, so maybe it was easier to work looking back over your right shoulder.
For centuries, I suppose, horses were driven along the left side of the road. They got used to the tall grass along the ditch. So the tall wheat along their left side would seem normal. It also fit in with the driver being in the seat nearest the center of the road so he could meet oncoming traffic and stay clear of collisions.
Some US states changed the road rules in about 1800. But the driver stayed on the right side like locomotive engineers. He needed to have the whip handy to his right hand. The lady was always to his left, like in church or in weddings. Most cars switched to the left seat by about 1912. Sweden switched in about 1967. United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, etc., still drive the original way.

• History of right-hand driving

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