Vehicles built roughly before 1920 share, in many cases, the wonderful contradiction that what they have in common is the fact that they differ so widely.
What’s underneath that funky hood
Since convention had not yet been established, builders used whatever designs and configurations they believed to be best (or cheapest) in everything from propulsion to controls. Differences in pedal layouts don’t matter much in the real world, and left-hand drive versus right-hand drive has little impact on operation, but some features made sense. Consider, though,
