1. I would like to thank Barbara McBane, Laura Doan and Jane Garrity for their helpful comments on this paper. The material is expanded in my Auto-Erotics: Early Women Motorists’ Love of Cars ( Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).
2. Much of the material in this chapter was gained from interviews with Alice Anderson’s three sisters, Frances Durham, Kathleen Ball, and Claire Fitzpatrick. I am indebted to Mimi Colligan for her earlier work on Alice Anderson, and for generously allowing me access to her files. Frances Durham and Kathleen Ball were interviewed by Mimi Colligan in 1981. During 1995–1997, I interviewed her younger sister Claire Fitzpatrick numerous times, as well as other women who worked at the garage. See Mimi Colligan, “Alice Anderson: Garage Proprietor,” in Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, eds., Double Time: Women in Victoria—150 Years (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1985), pp. 305–11.
3. Sean O’Connell, The Car in British Society: Class, Gender and Motoring, 1896–1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999). Wolfgang Sachs, For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1992). Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (New York: The Free Press, 1991).
4. Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness. 1928 (New York, Anchor Books, 1990), p. 147.
5. B. P., “A Women’s Motor Garage,” Common Cause, August 4, 1916.