Speedometer Gearbox Drive - Direction of Rotation

[Steve kay]

Oh Alan, what naughty boys. I am sure that not a single one of us had the faintest idea of which way the odometer spun, good lord no, otherwise we might have put it on the bench and attatched a drill to it for half an hour before recording the mileage for the next year's insurance. No doubt some twenty year old bought up suckling on a computer terminal has found a way of doing that to a modern car, using their smartphone. Then again, maybe insurers just ask the Chinese goverment for a satellite readout of the mileage.