Title:
A spanner in the works: the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
Author:
ISBN:
9780733642104
Call Number:
ANF 920 AND
Publication Information:
Sydney, New South Wales: Hachette Australia Pty Limited, 2019
Copyright:
©2019
Physical Description:
xviii, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue Destination: Alice Springs -- Family portrait -- Land of the long white cloud -- To the motherland -- A bush retreat -- An education of sorts -- Coming of age -- Annus horribilis -- Over the Spur -- Hupmobile touring -- Miss Anderson's Motor Service -- A women's club -- Postwar pressures -- The Kew Garage -- A thoroughly modern girl -- A very clever invention -- Dangerous freedoms -- Beyond the garage -- To the never-never -- A tragic loss -- Epilogue Garage girls carry on -- Notes
Personal Subject:
Summary:
From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasure. She excelled as a motoring entrepreneur and inventor. Alice was the first woman in Australia to successfully pull off an almost impossible feat: without family or husband to back her financially, she built a garage to her own specifications and established the country's first motor service run entirely by women
Format:
Books
Language:
English
