Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) THE WOMAN AND THE CAR [Illustration: _Photo by Foulsham & Banfield, Ltd._ DOROTHY LEVITT _Her favourite photograph_] THE WOMAN AND THE CAR A CHATTY LITTLE HANDBOOK FOR ALL WOMEN WHO MOTOR OR WHO WANT TO MOTOR BY DOROTHY LEVITT EDITED WITH INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES BY C. BYNG-HALL ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIALLY TAKEN LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY, MCMIX Printed by BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London INTRODUCTORY In presenting this book to the public the publisher is acting largely on the request of some hundreds of ladies, some already motorists, others would-be motorists. Miss Dorothy Levitt, last year, wrote a short series of articles for the _Daily Graphic_ on the subject of Motoring for Women. These articles attracted a great deal of attention and Miss Levitt was inundated with letters from all parts of the United Kingdom and also from abroad, asking her for further information on various points and also begging her to publish the articles and additional information in volume form. Miss Levitt was also asked to contribute articles on the same lines to many magazines and weekly publications and further received requests from a number of distinguished women to give them personal instruction in the art of driving and managing the mechanism of their cars. As the simplest way out of answering all these requests Miss Levitt has revised and enlarged her former articles and has added new chapters and a great deal of matter which she believes every woman motorist or beginner will find of use. There has been no attempt to make this volume a formal text-book on motoring for women but rather a chatty little handbook, containing simple and understandable instructions and hints for all women motorists, whether beginners or experts. The facts contained in the various chapters are not those gathered from any standard manual of motoring but are from Miss Levitt’s own practical experience of six years’ daily driving, in all sorts of cars, in all sorts of weather and under all sorts of conditions--pleasure trips, long-distance tours at home and abroad and in competitions.