Hi,
I started driving just after the Suez crisis, when HMG decreed that you didn't need to be accompanied ...... no point in wasting petrol on driving lessons. Wonderful! I had three lessons with BSM, to learn how to go round corners without the tyres squealing. Passed first time in Dad's 1935 Austin 10. Passed again the following year in a RAF Bedford RL 4x4 7-tonner, mixing it with the trams in Blackpool.
I taught my wife to drive in a 1951 Sunbeam Talbot 90 in Penang. continued when we returned to UK. I tried to book her into BSM, but they started to chunter about assessing her disability, so dropped that idea. We found a school that would teach her in an unadapted car, so she had one professional lesson. She took her test in West Croydon in a rusty Mini that she drove for the first time the day before. Passed first time, but restricted to Motor Car and Motor Tricycle (since lifted).
After my son had had half a dozen lessons, I took over for a few weeks, then back to school for another half dozen lessons, after which he passed first time. He taught six of his mates to drive....five passed first time, and the other never passed.
But I, my wife, and my son, have all had spectacular "incidents", though we all have full NCBs and clean licences, so perhaps best to do as I say, not as I do.
DO NOT TEACH YOUR WIFE TO DRIVE! She will claim executive authority!
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