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Caption: "New York City school officials inspect revolutionary new technique of providing 'behind-the-wheel' driver training in the classroom for 15 students at a time on the Aetna Drivotrainer which was introduced for the first time in the nation by the New York [City] Board of Education Tuesday (February 24) at the Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades [located at Nassau Avenue and Bedford Avenue]. Here Stanley F. Withe, left, manager of the public education department of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, which developed the Drivotrainer, discusses its operation with Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, center, Associate Superintendent C. Frederick Pertsch, seated, and Richard J. O'Connor, right, supervisor of driver education in the New York schools."

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