Solved - NEH 2462: 1948 Ford Prefect driving school car with early dual-controls

[Carnut]

What's all this about, what's the car and from when does it date? - for 1 point:

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[Carnut]

Experts?

[Hiawatha]

Ford Prefect, 1949, dual control driver instruction.

[targhediferro]

The dashboard looks like a Ford Prefect 1948 one; I don't know what this car was for, but I suppose a Drive-school.

[richard cuyler]

It's a Ford Prefect, as seen from the back seat by someone after they'd imbibed a whole bottle of Count Pushkin.

[Carnut]

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.

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...!

[Wendax]

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).

[D-type]

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..

[Wendax]

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.

[Carnut]

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.

[Tom_I]

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.

[Otto Puzzell]

More steering wheels = more problems

[RayTheRat]

More steering wheels = more problems

Can you imagine them trying to parallel park?

Oy, Vey!