>>Interesting, Walter, thanks. I'd no idea that so many actually drove on the left and I was pleased to see the map of such (I've often wished to see one)
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>>Notice, though that originally the default was the left, until Napolean happened. And as for the Americas - well that seems to have been just bloody-mindedness!
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>Remind me where the automobile was invented again? I think you guys were still herding cows and sheep when Americans started driving.

In my town, Brighton, every year there is the vintage car rally, from London. There are loads of vintage cars and very few of them are American (the most prolific seems to be the de Dion "Bouton").

I imagine there were once far more cars on the streets of English cities than in the whole of America, but can't be sure. I think you may be confusing the invention of the automobile with the introductioon of Ford's "T" - the first mass manuf'd I think.