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II c. 40), which needed that "all carriages passing over the stated bridge from London will go on the east side thereof" those going south to remain on the east, ie the left-hand side by instructions of travel. This may represent the very first statutory requirement for LHT. A frequently-heard story is that Napoleon changed the custom from LHT to RHT in France and the nations he conquered after the Reign of terror.

In 1827, long after Napoleon's reign, Edward Planta composed that, in Paris, "The coachmen have no recognized guideline by which they drive on the right or left of the roadway, but they cross and scramble one another without ceremony." Rotterdam was LHT till 1917, although the remainder of the Netherlands was RHT.

In Austria, Vorarlberg switched in 1921, North Tyrol in 1930, Carinthia and East Tyrol in 1935, and the rest of the nation in 1938. In Romania, Transylvania, the Banat and Bukovina were LHT up until 1919, while Wallachia and Moldavia were already RHT. Partitions of Poland belonging to the German Empire and the Russian Empire were RHT, while the former Austrian Partition changed in the 1920s.

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Nazi Germany introduced the switch in Czechoslovakia in 19381939. West Ukraine was LHT, however the rest of Ukraine, having actually been part of the Russian Empire, was RHT. [] In Italy it had actually been decreed in 1901 that each province define its own traffic code, including the handedness of traffic, and the 1903 Baedeker guide reported that the rule of the roadway varied by area.

In 1915, allied forces of World War I enforced LHT in locations of military operation, however this was revoked in 1918. Rome was reported by Goethe as LHT in the 1780s. Naples was likewise LHT although surrounding areas were frequently RHT. In cities LHT was considered safer because pedestrians, accustomed to keeping right, might much better see approaching car traffic.