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AAA Driver Training Car
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Ralph Hult, president of Hult's Capital Garage, presenting the keys to a dual control driver training car to Richard Bardwell, director of the Madison vocational school (right). Looking on in the center is Dean Fay Elwell of the University of Wisconsin commerce school and chairman of the AAA advisory committee in Madison. The car was loaned to the school for use in its adult driver training course through arrangements made by the American Automobile Association and Hult's garage.
November 8, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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