Those old reversed levers made good engineering sense insofar as they gave your strongest fingers the most leverage as they were furthest from the pivot.
Important in the olde days of friction materials when those with strong hands had some brakes and the rest needed all the help they could get.
Also lent themselves to internal cable runs too....
Like the idea of incestuous battery, motor, dynamo, battery relationship for a perpetual motion machine
Don't let them spoil your fun Anto, there is no Sanity Clause.
