What's all this about, what's the car and from when does it date? - for 1 point:
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Ford Prefect, 1949, dual control driver instruction.
The dashboard looks like a Ford Prefect 1948 one; I don't know what this car was for, but I suppose a Drive-school.
It's a Ford Prefect, as seen from the back seat by someone after they'd imbibed a whole bottle of Count Pushkin. ;D
Quote from: Hiawatha on February 28, 2013, 07:03:10 AM
Ford Prefect, 1949, dual control driver instruction.
Quote from: targhediferro on February 28, 2013, 07:05:31 AM
The dashboard looks like a Ford Prefect 1948 one; I don't know what this car was for, but I suppose a Drive-school.
Today must be the day for double-answers.
I've given Hiawatha a point because it is indeed a Ford Prefect with an early attempt at dual controls for driver instruction.
But I've also given targhediferro a point because it is a '48 Prefect, not a '49.
Apparently the idea was not a success; it didn't take kindly to people pulling in opposite directions...!
The Austrian army had bought some double-steered driving school trucks in the 1960s, the Steyr 680 MF (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=15651.msg152585#msg152585).
I was taught to drive in a dual control Ford Anglia in 1966. Later than that some driving school cars had dual brake and clutch pedals to allow panic stops by instructors/ examiners..
Quote from: D-type on February 28, 2013, 03:24:21 PM
Later than that some driving school cars had dual brake and clutch pedals to allow panic stops by instructors/ examiners..
I don't know about other countries, but dual pedal controls are obligatory in German driving school cars.
Quote from: D-type on February 28, 2013, 03:24:21 PM
I was taught to drive in a dual control Ford Anglia in 1966. Later than that some driving school cars had dual brake and clutch pedals to allow panic stops by instructors/ examiners..
Me too, also in 1966! (although I'd been driving since age 12 on private land and had already exceeded 80 mph well before I was 17..)
All driving school cars I've come acress have the dual brake and clutch pedals; isn't that what dual control means? Is there any other kind? Think the dual steering wheels talked about above are very very rare and are not practical.
When I first went to Portugal, around 1980, I remember seeing driving school cars with full dual control, including two steering wheels.
Unfortunately I didn't take any photos, but here are some earlier examples. Apparently the second steering wheel was a requirement for instruction vehicles in Portugal until the 1980s.
More steering wheels = more problems
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on March 02, 2013, 08:07:30 AM
More steering wheels = more problems
Can you imagine them trying to parallel park?
Oy, Vey!