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Title: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: Carnut on February 21, 2013, 07:17:37 AM: What's all this about, what's the car and from when does it date? - for 1 point:

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Title: Re: NEH 2462
Post by: Carnut on February 28, 2013, 05:10:14 AM: Experts?
Title: Re: NEH 2462
Post by: Hiawatha on February 28, 2013, 07:03:10 AM: Ford Prefect, 1949, dual control driver instruction.
Title: Re: NEH 2462
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: NEH 2462
Post by: richard cuyler on February 28, 2013, 07:08:11 AM: It's a Ford Prefect, as seen from the back seat by someone after they'd imbibed a whole bottle of Count Pushkin. ;D
Title: Re: NEH 2462
Post by: Carnut on February 28, 2013, 07:19:32 AM: 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...!
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: Wendax on February 28, 2013, 09:13:14 AM: 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).
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: 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..
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: Wendax on February 28, 2013, 04:50:29 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: Carnut on March 01, 2013, 04:49:53 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: Tom_I on March 01, 2013, 08:33:24 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: Otto Puzzell on March 02, 2013, 08:07:30 AM: More steering wheels = more problems
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls
Post by: RayTheRat on March 05, 2013, 06:12:16 PM: 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!