WOMEN AT THE WHEEL

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 18

WOMEN AT THE WHEEL

"Thank you, Mrs. Davies," says a writer in the "Cape Times," and adds, "We women are grateful to you for helping to remove the prejudice against women motorists. Your taking first place in the light car class of the Double Twelve reliability trials ,is surely a reply to the grouchers. Perhaps even more than the Grand Prix, these trials are a test of steady, careful driving, ready response to emergencies—since unlike a race track, the open road has conditions which cannot be pre-determined—a good nerve and plenty of endurance." The writer goes on to say that most men, if they hear of tiresomeness on the open toad, put down the trouble to women, whether they know anything about the matter, or not—yet if they have definite knowledge of trouble made by their own sex, they dismiss the idea as an individual fool of whom there are. not many. And are there not? Mrs. Davies came second in the Port Elizabeth trials, and has only been motoring for six years. She has, however, decided to leave flying to her husband. "Someone must look after the family!"