Thanks to failing my 11+ I was sent to a relatavily new Secondary Modern school. Here we had classes in Woodwork, Metalwork, Engineering Workshop Theory & Practice and Technical drawing (reached A level in that). Then I went to work and served an apprenticeship where we learnt all those properly.
Favourite at school were the engineering classes. An old Rover, a fire damaged MG T series courtesy of banger in petrol tank and bought for a fiver, an old Case tractor and various stationary engines kept us well occupied. The woodwork on the MG was rebuilt and it eventually ran although disappointingly slow with a retrofit 100E engine. Still one of our class got it running fast enough to spin it on grass in the vicinity of a telegraph pole. Car esentially undamaged, same couldn't be said for my schoolmates blazer.
