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A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage / Loretta Smith.

By: Publisher: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, an imprint of Hachette Australia Pty Limited, 2019Description: xvii, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780733642104
Other title:
  • Extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 920.72 23
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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 920.72 AND (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68131

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-351) and index.

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.

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.

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