Yesterday We Posted About,

the 'fastest girl on earth',

then today I read a piece from Roger White, curator of road transportation at the National Museum of American History talking about why electric cars in the early 1900s were called ‘ladies cars’, well he comments, ‘It was because car manufacturers, car dealers and the rest of society assumed that women lacked the mechanical aptitude and physical strength to drive and maintain gasoline-powered vehicles, electric cars were easier to control, less greasy and required little technical knowledge to drive, they also had limited range and speed, which tended to keep women close to home, an effect that some people considered a good thing, but some pioneering women not only chose gasoline-powered cars, they raced them and drove them across the continent', as we pointed out yesterday, I guess we have moved on a tad since then and ‘ladies cars’ have now been accepted by most of us.