A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage / Loretta Smith.
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
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780733642104
- Extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
- Anderson, Alice
- Biography: general
- Biographies
- Women automobile industry workers -- Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile mechanics -- Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile repair shops -- Victoria -- History
- Travel
- Women automobile industry workers -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile mechanics -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile repair shops -- Australia -- Victoria -- History
- Automobile mechanics
- Automobile repair shops
- Women automobile industry workers
- Australia -- Central Australia
- Victoria
- Australia, Central -- Description and travel -- 1901-1950
- Victoria -- History -- 20th Century
- Australian
- 920.72 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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