Mexico fake news?

With all modern techniques, it is no longer easy to see whether something you see is reality or not. This applies to news facts, such as all the controversy surrounding COVID19 or the last American presidential election, but certainly also to images, both still and moving.
But don't think that this is a totally new phenomenon, even early in the last century plenty of images were manipulated. Consider, for example, the various edited photos from Stalin's time, in which disgraced public figures were erased from existing photos.
And (I would almost say of course) you can also find examples of it in motorcycle philately. Recently I saw a large magnification of the first stamp depicting a motorcycle, the Express Stamp of Mexico from 1919! (here the overprinted version from 1940)

Detail of the stamp, processed to enhance visibility

My eye fell on 2 letters on the box on the sidecar: MЯ, so RM in mirror image. Normally, when it comes to postal matters, RM stands for the (English) Royal Mail. But in England people drive on the left, which is why a sidecar is normally mounted on the left side of the motorcycle. On the stamp, however, the sidecar is on the right.
The bike resembles a Harley-Davidson, which at the time had a vertical lever on the left side of the tank for shifting. On the stamp there is also a vertical lever on the tank between the engine and the sidecar, thus on the right .....
So it seems that the image on the stamp is mirrored in its entirety, thus image manipulation! But..... what is an (American) Harley Davidson doing at the British Post in 1919??

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