A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage / Loretta Smith
- Bib ID:
- 8038136
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Loretta, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Edition:
- Digital original.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2019
- ©2019
- 1 online resource [384 pages] : illustrations, portraits.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 9.5MB
- ISBN:
- 9780733642111 (EPUB)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access : Available online.
- Summary:
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From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasure. She was a woman of 'rare achievement' who excelled as a motoring entrepreneur and inventor. Young, petite, boyish and full of charm, Alice was the only 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 only motor service run entirely by women. Alice was also an adventurer, and her most famous road trip occurred in 1926 in a Baby Austin she had purchased exclusively to prove that the smallest car off a production line could successfully make the 1500-mile-plus journey on and off road from Melbourne to Alice Springs, central Australia. However, less than a week after her return, Alice was fatally shot in the head at the rear of her own garage. She was only twenty-nine years old. Every newspaper in the country mourned her sudden loss. A coronial inquest concluded that Alice's death was accidental but testimonies at the inquest were full of inconsistencies. Alice's life was brief but extraordinary, and in this richly detailed and entertainingly told book this pioneering Australian woman comes to life for readers for the first time.
- Notes:
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- Title from title screen.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also available in print.
- Subject:
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- Anderson, Alice
- Automobile mechanics -- Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile repair shops -- Victoria -- History
- Women automobile industry workers -- Victoria -- Biography
- Biography & Autobiography - Historical
- Biography & Autobiography - Women
- Biography & True Stories
- Biography: general
- Gender studies: women & girls
- Gender studies: women
- Melbourne
- Motor cars: general interest
- Victoria
- Victoria -- History -- 20th Century
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Also Titled:
- Extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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