{"product_id":"9780733642104","title":"A Spanner in the Works","description":"Author: Loretta Smith\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780733642104\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Mar 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasure. She was a woman of 'rare achievement' who excelled as a motoring entrepreneur and inventor. Young, petite, boyish and full of charm, Alice was the first woman in Australia to successfully pull off an almost impossible feat: without family or husband to back her financially, she built a garage to her own specifications and established the country's first motor service run entirely by women.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice was also an adventurer, and her most famous road trip occurred in 1926 in a Baby Austin she had purchased exclusively to prove that the smallest car off a production line could successfully make the 1500-mile-plus journey on and off road from Melbourne to Alice Springs, central Australia.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHowever, less than a week after her return, Alice was fatally shot in the head at the rear of her own garage. She was only twenty-nine years old. Every newspaper in the country mourned her sudden loss. A coronial inquest concluded that Alice's death was accidental but testimonies at the inquest were full of inconsistencies.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice's life was brief but extraordinary, and in this richly detailed and entertainingly told book this pioneering Australian woman comes to life for readers for the first time.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46465981677726,"sku":"ADS-9780733642104","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780733642104.jpg?v=1770010744","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780733642104","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}