So our daughter-in-law very kindly bought us one .. off Amazon. This is it.
You can see the 'compass arrow' in the picture, pointing North .. and you are looking at the N, telling you you are travelling North. Great! Took me an age to work out why we were travelling in the wrong direction all the time. The direction of that arrow was actually pointing South, so you should have been looking at an S, not an N. And as it is supposed to be a 'directional compass', the N, S, E, W should have been printed the other way round. Just looking at the picture, if you line yourself up with the NW .. you would actually be travelling South East. So I suppose you could use the compass so long as you mentally change the direction it was showing to it's opposite.
This is what the Amazon Reviews said about the compass:
Great looking product, problem is it is not directional. That is, it does not show the direction in which one is travelling. That means if you travel North the compass shows South. In these days of high fuel costs that could become expensive. I bought it for my wife who finds things complicated enough without having to do mental gymnastics in order to determine where she is going.
This appliance has been printed the wrong way around, when it is pointing to the north it is going south and so forth.
This confirmed what I had thought. Well, it was Made in China !
My daughter-in-law said, "Win some, lose some".
Anybody else ever had one of these .. or had one that is printed the right way round to be a 'directional' compass? I did look for another one on Google but they all seemed to be made by the same company .. in China.
Hugh