WOMEN DRIVERS IN FRANCE.
,/ Apart from-the Paris municipality women drivers have not been employed to any extent in the , French service. There are no cases of private firms using women chauffeurs. The, army _ officially has admitted women, to drive light trucks, touring cars, and: ambulances, but the experiment has not been a great success, and the fact that a man nearly always is attached to the car at the same time to crank it, wash it, and attend- to it mechanically makes the change one of very doubtful economy. Attempts have been. made. by. the.army to employ Asiatic troops as truck drivers with very unsatisfactory . results. After a long training in the army schools the inefficiency of these men was revealed by an accident list. 50 per , cent.' greater than that shown by the worst European drivers. It was after this \ experience, and still with a view to . economy of labour, that women were admitted to drive army cars. ,■" • .
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 36, 10 August 1918, Page 14
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