Further to the recent discussion on the Riley Pathfinder and its right-hand gearchange, I happened on an a copy of Graham Robson's book "The Cars of BMC" today, and it turns out that my memory was faulty. Not only did the Pathfinder's successor, the Two-point-Six, retain the right-hand gearchange location, but the Wolseley 6/90, of which of course the Two-point-Six was a badge-engineered version, had switched, on introduction of the 6/90 Series 2 in 1956, from the column change of the Series 1 to a right-hand floor change. Both 6/90 and Two-point-Six continued with right-hand gearchanges until their demise in 1959.
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