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AAA Driver Training Car
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Pontiac automobile with sign "AAA dual control training car." The car was used in high schools to reduce accidents on Madison streets and is on display here at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival. On the wall is a poster about safety patrol activities.
September 25, 1938
Waste, Elwin G., 1902-1957
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AAA Driver Training Car
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Close-up of neon sign display by Capital City Advertising Co., general sign contractors, neon manufacturing sales & service, at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) Fall Festival.
AAA Driver's Education Class and Instructor
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AAA driver's training instructor with group of students, posing with dual control driver's education car, in front of Madison East High School.
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January 11, 1939
Governor Julius P. Heil and four men, standing next to a AAA dual control driver training car, courtesy of Pontiac Motor Division. The car is parked in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol steps.
Driver Training Car
October 2, 1939
Dual Control AAA Driver Training Car. "Courtesy of your Nash dealer, Hughes-Neuman Motors, Inc. 601 University Avenue."
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...
