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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 5

On consideration, it seems that where the rule of the road, is to keep to the left, as in England, the driving-wheel should ho on the "right, arid! that when "keep to the right" ia the order, as in tho States, the driving done from the left; it brings the. driver closely up to the traffic met with in each case, which, one would think, makes for safety. If left-hand driving is dangerous for England, then, it is pointed out, right-hand driving; mnst he equally menacing to the safety of the Americans. Yet thirteen motor manufacturers in that country are building both cars and wagons with right-hand steering. It is admitted by the Americans that during the last few years tho British motoring public has bought thousands of cars equipped with left-hand drive—sufficient to demonstrate, perhaps, that the individual motorist has ao prejudice against left-hand steering. If, however,. there is any preference, natural or acquired 1 , tho Americans on their own showing-can meet it by making available cars having the loft-hand or rightiaad steering as required. „ Up to September 1, 5585 bouses had been completed under tho British Ministry of Housing. (The cable news In this ttstlo accredited to the London "Times" has appeared In that Journal, but only where expressly rtatod Is loch nawi tha editorial opinion cf the "Timet.")