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Old December 15th 04, 02:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Paul Cummins Paul Cummins is offline
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Default Heathrow Piccadilly Line Closure

In article ,
(John Rowland) wrote:

If you're in a car and using a map to find somewhere
do you orient your A-Z depending on what direction
you car is facing? No , of course not.


Some people do. Some people need to. Also, a road atlas was produced
with all of Britain the right way up in the first half, and all of
Britain upside down in the second half.


The military are trained to turn themap to follow the direction of travel,
and to read it upside down if needed.

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