Did yours have a foot feed for the accelerator? I've never seen one without a hand feed for the rpm's on the steering column.
Mine and a pedal and steering column lever, so I guess I got one of the fancy ones!
"Mash the foot feed" is a phrase you'll hear mostly in the southern US, and rarely elsewhere, including HN.
The fancy ones had an accelerator pedal, but most just had the lever on the steering column.