"three-on-the-tree" meaning in English

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          "text": "In driver's education, they used to teach students to drive in cars with a three-on-the-tree, but now the cars all have automatic transmission."
        }
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        "On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the mid-1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column."
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          "transmission",
          "transmission"
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        [
          "gearshift",
          "gearshift"
        ],
        [
          "mount",
          "mount"
        ],
        [
          "steering column",
          "steering column"
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        "(US, idiomatic) On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the mid-1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column."
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        {
          "word": "four-on-the-floor"
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          "word": "3-on-the-tree"
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          "gearshift",
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        "(US, idiomatic) On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the mid-1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column."
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