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in 1900. The event was a test of drivers but its purpose was to popularise motoring. She completed the course which ran from 23 April to 12 May starting and ending in London with
Edinburgh being their destination. She drove over 560 miles and her mechanic drove 530 miles in their car that was open to
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although she gave a talk to them on the subject. She said that she had been driving for three or four years at speeds up to 14 miles per hour travelling over 2,000 miles but with a trained mechanic in case of breakdowns. She noted that driving a car only required skill and not strength so there was
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motorist. She was present at the
Emancipation Run in 1896 when car owners celebrated being able to exceed 4 mph. She was widely reported as a woman who was making long trips in a car. She was the only woman to enter the three week long
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Bazalgette was born in 1845 or 1846 in Essex where her father John
Seville was a farmer. She was living in London in 1870 when she married George Bazalgette. He was fifteen years older than her and a marine. The noted civil engineer
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no barrier to women driving. However they lacked the knowledge of technical terms and she proposed that the new club would give women the knowledge of how their cars worked.
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