Back when the air cars were Ford friend-100 vans ( automatics ), this tale happened.
They were hiring a women as a FT Driver, she passed the road test, so she was sent out for 3 days of training with a sup driving. On the 3rd days the sup is mad as heck , she does not how to drive a stick. She took her driving test in a friend-100 van. The training sup had to spent a day with her teaching her to drive a stick.