Back in the 60s, my mother had a Morris Minor which had bar indicators ending in a half arrow head. They sat, vertically, inside a slot, one on each side of the car, between the front and back doors. When she was going to make a left or right turn, my mother would activate some switch, and the appropriate bar indicator would swing out of its slot nest, from a vertical position inside the slot to a horizontal position protruding from the car.
In the early 70s, my brother-in-law’s new Nissan car had blinking indicator lights instead, just like the kind we have today. One night, the car broke down when he was out on the road, so he switched on his hazard lights, another newly-introduced feature. Behind him was an old man in his much older model (the type with the half arrow head bar indicators). As the old man overtook my brother-in-law, he shouted out of his car window in great frustration, “Make up your mind whether you want to turn left or right, will you!??!”
(Singapore, 1960s/1970s)
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