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The Woman and the Car

The Woman and the Car A Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor or Who Want to Motor

Hardback (10 Jul 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Woman and the Car is a faithfully reproduced, quirky classic from the dawn of motoring - and testament to womankind's perennial claim on the steering wheel! Take a spin through a time - 1909, to be precise - when no right-thinking lady would consider solo motoring without her revolver, and when the installation of a secret compartment for powder-puff was de rigueur. In the vintage driver's seat of this 'chatty little handbook' is record-breaking Edwardian motoriste Dorothy Levitt, exhorting the budding 'lady driver' to approach the newfangled contraption without fear and reassuring those who believed it was 'impossible to look anything but hideous when in an automobile.'

Book information

ISBN: 9781908402875
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint: Old House Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796.7082
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xii, 146
Weight: 258g
Height: 189mm
Width: 122mm
Spine width: 21mm