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Posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 07:07 AM UTC
Looking at photos of the Italian Lancia 3Ro, I noticed that this was right-hand drive. Was this the case with all Italian vehicles during the war?
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Posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 07:29 AM UTC
According to Wikipedia, "In Italy the countryside was right-hand traffic (RHT) while cities were left-hand traffic 'LHT) until 1927. Rome changed to RHT in 1924 and Milan in 1926. Alfa Romeo and Lancia did produce RHD cars until as late as 1950 and 1953 respectively only to special order, as many drivers favoured the RHD layout even in RHT as this offered the driver a clearer view of the edge of the road in mountainous regions at a time when many such roads lacked barriers or walls."

I believe trucks were more often right-hand drive than cars (check out this thread )

but both setup can be seen with cars as well. Here's a WW2 right-hand drive Fiat 508 CM Coloniale :



But this 1936 Fiat 508 Balilla 4M is obviously left-hand drive...



So if someone ask you :



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