Bibliograph

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

Type

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesportraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A spanner in the works

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Loretta Smith

Sub title

the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage

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

Target audience

adult

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