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India Four Two
Harry just beat me to it!
Slight thread drift about driving on the left. I used to live in Jakarta, as did Harry, so he will remember this story. In order to establish the prestige of the British Government, the Foreign Office had sent a giant Daimler limousine for the use of the British Ambassador. Not only was its size completely unsuitable for Jakarta's mostly narrow streets, but one of Sir Humphrey's colleagues had obviously decided that since Indonesia had not been a part of the British Empire (at least not since Raffles' time), traffic must drive on the right, and therefore the Daimler was LHD!
In Indonesia the law says LHD but everyone is free to make their own mind up - I can remember 8 lanes of traffic outside the National Stadium one night - they were (from the left) - ahead, towards, towards, ahead, ahead, towards, ahead ahead.... hardly any accidents at all............................