Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23
DRIVERS GRADUATED
AT ST. LOUIS SCHOOL
Automobile Manufacturers and
Dealers Association Turns
Out Competent Men.

The first class was graduated last
month from the motor car school eS-
tablished by the st. Louis Automobile
Manufacturers and Dealers associa-
ton under the patronage of the Cen
tral Y. NJ. G. A This class was chiefly
mechanics employed in local shops
who had taken the l6-weeks' course
at the night school. Ten weeks ago n
day school was opened and II Is en-
rolling pupils from Missouri. Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Colorado. Georgia, Ok
lahoma, Arkansas and North and
South Dakota. Eight weeks work will
he required of day classes. Five weeks
ago several women enrolled to train
for ambulance driving abroad. Their
entrance was effected by contract
made by the St Louis chapter of the
Red Cross which will send no more
women abroad as ambulance drivers
luntil they have been drilled in scien-
tifio driving and emergency repairing
IL is expected that this class VIII bo
large. Applicants for enlistment as
drivers who believe themselves
equipped for the work will be sent &c
the school for examination.
The instruction is practical in both
day and evening classes. The students
are given practice in disassembline
and assembling various makes OF cars
and also in making adjustments and
repairs. Some repairing is done. Me-
chanical and electrical lectures ar,
given in the laboratories OF the school
by experts in these lines. The student
gets in the school shop the actual eX-
perience of putting into practice the
theory taught in the classroom. The
theory is not credited in work. unless
the practice follows and demonstrates
the students grasp.
Have Five Distinct Courses.
The school provides for five distinct
courses which may be taken either in
the dav or evening; the complete
course, preparing men to become re-
pair men, echauffeurs, garage man
ayers, statesmen, demonstrators, etc;
the electrical course, for men who
have a considerable knowledge OF tho
car but have not mastered lighting.
starting and ignition; owners course:
driving course. either individual or
group instruction; and machine shop
course one of the strongest depart
ments of the school is the tire repair
and vulcanizing department
The principal and mechanical lee
turer is G. c. Winn from the Univer-
SHY OF w lSCOllSiIit Nil'lt ilt DhAi
charge of the motor car classes. In
which the enrolment reached one
thousand n year. Mr.. Winn entered
the industry as a designer and worked
for the Studebaker, American. Briscoe
Marion and other factories. c. l..
McCord Is lecturer on electrical topics
Gus Bowman instructor in vulcaniz-
ing; Arthur Sigelhorst and G.. II. Pc
terson, instructors in mechanics. All
of these men made their living at the
trades they now teach.
The sixty-five firms composing the
Automobile Dealers & Manufacturers
association ofsSt Louis, who are back
ing the school, take students at the
end OF the courses in their shops and
under their foremen for a two or four
week period of actual shop work. The
school equipment includes all import
ant parts, models, engines, etc. n
varies thru the various types OF car
buretors in modern and older models
and different ignition systems, elcc-
trical starters, one-oylinder to eight
cylinder engines, various types OF
transmissions in use on standard and
old model cars. differentials, rear
axles. cooling systems. oiling systems
cluto hes. tires. rims, brakes etc The
school uses modern cars for driving
purposes.-Motor Age.