Hot taps on the left in Canada.
I gather that hot taps on the right will cause a final plumbing inspection
to fail prior to a new building being occupied.
Still on the topic of oddities, does Australia still drive on the left as a
result of its British connection or of the country's proximity to Indonesia
and Japan both of which drive on the left?
jh
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From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] electrical interference
> I've had an awful lot of electrical devices in the past with switches
> (when they still had mechanical switches) which were always, always
> down=on, whether they were rockers or flip types. Same for cars. I
> can't imagine that the Japanese were carefully inverting the switches
> for the UK market. In old American cars, did you flip the switches up
> for on?
> For whoever said it, I didn't notice anything different in France
> recently, even with those BIG rocker switches they use for lights.
> Oh and are your cold taps (er...faucets) on the left or right? I
> always thought 'left for hot' was a global standard as in mixer taps
> until I bought this house - it had been plumbed by the previous South
> African owner and they were the wrong way around (at least, geography
> was his excuse).
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 28/02/2010, at 4:28 AM, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> A big mystery for me is why light switches in Canada [and maybe in
>> the US]
>> flip up for on and down for off whereas in the UK it's up for off
>> and down
>> for on.
>>
>> jh
>>
>>
>
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