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High School Driver Training
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Willis Jones gives instructions to Doris Johnson, seated in the driver's seat of a dual control driver training car, and Grace Goldburg during the behind-the-wheel instruction part of driver training class.
July 10, 1950
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Driver Education Dual Control Car
July 2, 1953
Seated in a dual control car used for driver education classes are, from left: Milt Diehl, instructor, and East High students, Bruce Schmidt and John Fillhouer.
Learning to Drive
July 1, 1954
Low angle view of student driver Carol Hansen seated at the steering wheel next to driving instructor and West High School physical education teacher, Willis Jones, who is pointing at the speedometer.
Summer Driver Education Program
April 18, 1955
East High School student John Ochalla learns to drive from instructor H. W. Mueller in the Board of Education's Summer Driver Education program.
Dual Control Driver Training Car
January 25, 1949
Mrs. John (Adelin) Shiels seated at the wheel of Madison Vocational School's dual control car with instructor Kenneth Davies during the school's first post-war driving course.
Vision Testing
June 25, 1950
Doug Onsager, left, and Nancy Letlebo examine the vision tester used in the drivers' education course for Madison high school students.
AAA Driver Training Car
November 8, 1948
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 c...
