Vehicle with reversible controls

Claim 1

IN A HYDRAULICALLY POWERED AND CONTROLLED VEHICLE HAVING TRACTION AND STREERABLE WHEELS WITH MECHANISM FOR STEERING THE LATTER, AND AN OPERATOR''S CONTROL STATION WITH A FLOOR THEREIN, THE COMBINATION, COMPRISING: AN OPERATOR''S SEAT; SAID SEAT BEING PIVOTALLY SUPPORTED ON SAID FLOOR SUBSTANTIALLY MIDWAY FORE-AND-AFT OF SAID OPERATOR''S STATION AND ROTATABLE ABOUT A VERTICAL AXIS SO AS TO SELECTIVELY FACE FORWARDLY OR REARWARDLY; STEERING CONTROL MECHANISM INCLUDING CONTROL VALVE MEANS, FLUIDCARRYING CONDUITS ADAPTED FOR COMMUICATIVELY CONNECTING SAID VALVE MEANS TO A SOURCE OF FLUID PRESSURE AND TO THE MECHANISM FOR STEERING SAID STEERABLE WHEELS, AND AN OPERATOR''S STEERING WHEEL OPERABLE FOR ACTUATING SAID VALVE MEANS; MEANS MOUNTING SAID STEERING CONTROL MECHANISM FOR POSITIONING OF SID STEERING WHEEL ADJACENT SAID SEAT; SAID STEERING CONTROL MECHANISM BEING SWINGABLE IN A VERTAL FORE-AND-AFT EXTENDING PLANE FOR POSITIONABLE USE WITH EACH POSITION OF SAID SEAT; A PLURALITY OF FOOD OPERATED CONTROLS; MEANS CONNECTING SAID LATTER CONTROLS WITH THE INSTRUMENTALITIES TO BE OPERATED THEREBY, WHEREBY ONE OF THE FOOT CONTROLS, WHETHER FACING IN ONE DIRECTION OR THE OTHER, IS OPERATED BY THE SAME FOOT OF AN OPERATOR, AND WHEREBY ANOTHER OF THE FOOT CONTROLS IS OPERATED TRANSPOSED BETWEEN A FORWARDLY AND A REARWARDLY FACING POSITION OF AN OPERATOR.