RACING AT BROOKLANDS.
WOMEN DRIVERS’ RIGHTS.
The motoring correspondent of the London Daily Express says that the victory of Mrs E. Wisdom and Miss Joan Itichmond at Brooklands, in the 1000-mile race, has brought to a head the whole question of tho rights of women drivers to compete on equal terms with men. Mrs IVisdom now proposes to race a giant Leyland-Thomas car, capable of 150 miles an hour, which the Brooklands authorities forbade her to use in 1931, because it was too fast and unwieldy for a woman to handle. The authorities at Brooklands admit they are still nervous ' about women drivers handling the fastest cars, though women are allowed to take part in the 24-hour road race at Lemans, which is one of tho most gruelling on the Continent.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 175, 25 June 1932, Page 2
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131RACING AT BROOKLANDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 175, 25 June 1932, Page 2
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