Actually I'm of the age when the driving test included hand signals and as an L driver you had to do BOTH during the test (yes, really , but then it was over fifty years ago! Oh my gosh... I just realised... I'm old!
Er sorry, my point was that back then, all British vehicles (i.e.: the dreaded Leyland Cars and Ford and Vauxhalls) had the indicator on the right because we drove on the left and you sat on the right and to give hand signals you used the window on the right, so it was a natural thing for the indicator to be on the right as well. The Japanese, who drive on the left, also had the indicator on the right and stuck with it. Meanwhile more and more cars in UK were built abroad and came with the switch on the left - and I'm sorry ...but back then I struggled to get used to that because it felt so unnatural! And TBH Japanese cars are correct.
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