Listers - Jerome poses an interesting theory that makes sense - anybody know
the real story?
-----Original Message-----
From: jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca [mailto:jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 2:11 AM
To: Scott.Christie(at)gecapital.com
Subject: Re: Lucas 3 position switches
"Christie, Scott E. (CAP, GEFA)" <Scott.Christie(at)gecapital.com> wrote:
> Nope, it's a British thing - mine do the same. Logic would lead you to
> believe that anything in the up position means it's on, but I guess that's
> why they also drive on the opposite side of the road!
I was pondering on it further, and wondered whether there was anything
inherited from the WWII days and military research into the best way to
lay out cockpits and switches and gauges and such (they did a lot). Then
I thought about my own experience altering the power switches on PC
cases for full-time machines, so that anything that fell and hit the
switch (most likely from above) would turn the machine on (which it
usually was) rather than off (which it rarely was). Maybe the thinking
was that these switches were more likely to be accidentally struck
upward (off) than downward (on), or easier to strike downward (on) from
the steering wheel. Notice that the two most important switches
safety-wise are on the immediate left and right, so they were thinking a
little.
Toss this back to the List if you want - I'd like to know if it's a
Home/Export thing, or maybe even someone knows there's a actually a good
reason.
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