Right Hand Drive

[dictator27]

Enjoyed George Hamlin's article on cars with the steering wheel on the east side. Studebaker went to a lot of trouble to put the bonnet lock (hood release ) on the right side. It isn't essential for daily operation, so why wasn't it left on the left? When the British moved the steering wheel from east to west, they often left the bonnet lock on the right, figuring the minor inconvenience outweighed the cost of moving it.

The accelerator pedal located between the clutch and brake pedals was a feature of all rhc Studebakers at least until 1928, possibly later.

Studebaker used an under dash hand brake mounted to the left of centre in the middle 20's. When the steering wheel moved to the right, the hand brake moved to the right of the driver. There is a cover plate over the hole in the firewall on left drive cars. The right side location makes it a bit of a knee knocker, though. BTDT - there is a rhc Standard 6 in my neighbourhood.

Terry

[Carl Purdy]

My wife has always wanted a brake pedal on the right side.

[8E45E]

Enjoyed George Hamlin's article on cars with the steering wheel on the east side. Studebaker went to a lot of trouble to put the bonnet lock (hood release ) on the right side. It isn't essential for daily operation, so why wasn't it left on the left? When the British moved the steering wheel from east to west, they often left the bonnet lock on the right, figuring the minor inconvenience outweighed the cost of moving it.

Ask any International Scout owner how annoying it is for the hood prop to be on the RIGHT which has to be manually released to close it, while opening the hood and checking the oil be done on the LEFT!!

Craig

[DEEPNHOCK]

Quote of the day!!!!!

my wife has always wanted a brake pedal on the right side.

[COMMANDERPINK1]

My wife has always wanted a brake pedal on the right side.

Now thats funny!

Tom

[dictator27]

My wife has always wanted a brake pedal on the right side.

I came across a car set up that way once. It was a 1958 Morris Isis with an automatic transmission (same one used by Studebaker, BW Model 35). The owner had lost his right leg and had the car modified so the accelerator pedal was to the left of the brake.

All BMC cars with the engine mounted fore and aft that were equipped with automatic transmissions used BW automatics. When Studebaker moved the steering wheel to the right side, the auto trans shift lever stayed on the right of the steering column, which kept the auto quadrant in the normal order. All RHD BMC cars with BW auto transmissions had the lever on the left side. The shift quadrant was reversed, reading RLDNP so the shift lever was up when in park. On LHD BMC cars that wasn't changed. The quadrant still went RLDNP, meaning that in park the lever is all the way down to the right. Go figure, since the transmission was originally designed for LHD vehicles.

Terry