apology was re did us drive on the left in a previous article dh q andrew cmu edu daniel u holbrook says i m guessing but i believe in the twenties we probably drove mostly down cattle trails and in wagon ruts i am fairly sure that placement of the steering wheel was pretty much arbitrary to the company at that time by the s there was a very active good roads movement which had its origins actually in the s during the bicycle craze picked up steam in the teens witness the linclon highway association or so and the us highway support act real name something different in that first pledged federal aid to states and counties to build decent roads also the experience of widespread use of trucks for domestic transport during ww convinced the government that good raods were crucial to our national defense anyway by the s there were plenty of good roads at least around urban areas and they were rapidly expanding into the countryside this was the era after all of the first auto touring fad the motel the auto camp ground etc two good books on the subject spring to mind warren belasco america on the road title may not be exact author is and another called the devil wagon in god s country author i forget also any of john flink s or john bell rae s auto histories i m sorry as i have never heard of any of this guess they don t think it s important enough for a classroom and i was going on what i ve seen in pics some movies real nice scource there huh i just always recall thinking that good roads of asphalt didn t come around til the interstate hiway act or whatever they called it s and that wood and cobblestone roads were fairly rare up through the depression except in overpopulated places like england and us cities obviously netwisdom says i am wrong as to placement of the steering wheel being arbitrary by the early teens there were virtually no american cars that did not have the wheel on the left in the early days cars had the wheel on the left on the right and even in the middle as well as sometimes having a tiller instead of a wheel this was standardized fairly early on though i don t know why i knew it was almost always done but i knew of no reason that it might not be done the other way by desoto for their car seems like they had some other deviations from the norm too at times dan dh q andrew cmu edu carnegie mellon university applied history world history strides on from catastrophe to catastrophe whether we can comprehend and prove it or not oswald spengler thanx for corrrecting me and again i aplogize for harebraned post drew
