The Resource A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage, Loretta Smith
A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage, Loretta Smith
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The item A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage, Loretta Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780733642104
- Label
- A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
- Title
- A spanner in the works
- Title remainder
- the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
- Statement of responsibility
- Loretta Smith
- Title variation
- Extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
- Title variation remainder
- the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australias first all-girl garage
- Subject
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- Anderson, Alice
- Automobile mechanics -- Australia | Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile mechanics -- Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile repair shops -- Australia | Victoria -- History
- Automobile repair shops -- Victoria -- History
- Biographies
- trueGender role
- trueMechanics
- trueMurder victims
- trueVictoria
- Victoria -- History -- 20th century
- Women automobile industry workers -- Australia | Victoria -- Biography
- Women automobile industry workers -- Victoria -- Biography
- trueWomen automobile mechanics
- trueWomen business owners
- trueWomen entrepreneurs
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian
- Language
- eng
- 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. 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10763395
- Cataloging source
- NJB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Loretta
- Dewey number
- 629.2872
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Anderson, Alice
- Women automobile industry workers
- Automobile mechanics
- Automobile repair shops
- Women automobile industry workers
- Automobile mechanics
- Automobile repair shops
- Victoria
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage
- Label
- A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage, Loretta Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- nc
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- txt
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- rdacontent
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- Control code
- 000065147623
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780733642104
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- be2019010958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1090808859
- Label
- A spanner in the works : the extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage, Loretta Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065147623
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780733642104
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- be2019010958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1090808859
Subject
- Anderson, Alice
- Automobile mechanics -- Australia | Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile mechanics -- Victoria -- Biography
- Automobile repair shops -- Australia | Victoria -- History
- Automobile repair shops -- Victoria -- History
- Biographies
- trueGender role
- trueMechanics
- trueMurder victims
- trueVictoria
- Victoria -- History -- 20th century
- Women automobile industry workers -- Australia | Victoria -- Biography
- Women automobile industry workers -- Victoria -- Biography
- trueWomen automobile mechanics
- trueWomen business owners
- trueWomen entrepreneurs
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian
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