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.

There may be points here and there which she has overlooked. Miss Levitt, however, will answer such questions or furnish such further information as readers may properly desire, either through the medium of his Majesty’s mails or, perhaps, in a later edition of this volume.

The photographs, with which the several chapters are illustrated, were specially taken for the work by Mr. Horace W. Nicholls.

London, February 1909.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Introductory][v]
[Dorothy Levitt: A Personal Sketch][3]
[The Woman and The Car]
CHAP.
[I.][The Car—Its Cost, Upkeep and Accessories][15]
[II.][The All-Important Question of Dress][23]
[III.][The Mechanism of the Car][31]
[IV.][How to Drive][41]
[V.][Troubles—How to Avoid and to Mend them][51]
[VI.][Hints on Expenses][62]
[VII.][Motor Manners][69]
[VIII.][Tips—Necessary and Unnecessary][77]
[Distinguished Women Motoristes][85]
[The Coming of the Small Car][93]
[Car Index-marks and their Locale—In Britain, France and Germany][101]
[The Motor Woman’s Dictionary—Brief Explanation of Technical Terms][111]
[Index]:[A],[B],[C],[D],[E],[F],[G],[H],[I],[J],[K],[L],[M],[N],[O],[P],[R],[S],[T],[U],[V],[W.][123]
[Advertisements—Specially Selected as Being Useful to Women Motoristes][129]