10-07-2020, 07:55 PM
(10-07-2020, 07:09 PM)Slack Alice Wrote: ... The article says that it wasn't until the Austin Seven came along that the Clutch - Brake - Accelerator layout on the floor became standard practice...
The Seven wasn't even the first Austin to have the 'standard' pedal layout; The Twelve from a year earlier certainly did, and I'm pretty sure the Twenty did before that.
As for the use of 'Gas', yes, I'm pretty sure it was the Hudson influence as Monsdonnet suggests; again, the Twelve and the Twenty used 'Gas' on the column controls, too.