Effie & Avis Hotchkiss – The First Women To Ride Cross Country. A little over one hundred years ago, on May 2, 1. Effie Hotchkiss and her mother Avis left Brooklyn, New York on the adventure of a. The mother and daughter duo were bound for San Francisco, California on a new 1. Harley- Davidson V- twin Effie had recently bought. After arriving in the City by the Bay in August, the pair became the first women to ride cross- country on a motorcycle. Soon afterward, Effie and Avis headed back East and arrived in New York City in October after having covered a grand total of nine thousand miles on the trip. You can learn more about their interesting run at the Harley- Davidson Museum. Cris Sommer Simmons of Hawaii authored The American Motorcycle Girls 1. In 2. 01. 0, Cris honored Effie Hotchkiss by riding her own 1. Harley- Davidson V- twin across America in the 2. Motorcycle Cannonball. A photo of Cris on her machine can be seen (below) along with a map of next year’s run. It now has ten pre- 1. Atlantic City to Dan Diego with the latest entrant being Gil Klecan, who will drive a 1. Pierce- Arrow in the event. Effie and Avis in Salt Lake City, Utah (above), in an image. Chris Sommer Simmons (below) riding her 1. Harley- Davidson on the 2. Motorcycle Cannonball. War and Automobile Advertising, 1. Printed in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: June 5, 1. Early in World War I violence came to the serene island of Tahiti in the Pacific when two German armored warships attacked Papeete, the capital of what is now called French Polynesia. On September 2. 2, 1. The French had minimal defenses, and could offer little resistance, but at the start of the attack they had set fire to several thousand tons of coal, thus depriving the Germans of fuel that they had hoped to capture for their warships. The German ships were sunk two months later during the Battle of the Falkland Islands. One result of the bombardment of the town appeared in this advertisement by the Chalmers Motor Car Company, Detroit, which apparently had one of its cars damaged by a German shell (probably one of the big 2. Papeete. The car held up well enough that it became a candidate for an advertising campaign by the company. The text on the ad reads: “BING! A German shell struck a Chalmers Master- Six, knocked off a couple of wheels, one or two lamps and was pretty rough with the car altogether but there was enough left of this Chalmers to send back to San Francisco for repairs. This Master- Six belonged to G. Menuel, Consul- General of the French Republic and was hit during the German bombardment of the French town of Papeete, Tahiti Island. Chalmers cars are not built for targets nor to withstand the unusual demands of war, but they do stand up under rough usage and sometimes cruel abuse. Chalmers quality is responsible for this.”An advertisement published in Scientific American on June 5, 1. Image: Scientific American, June 5, 1. The Chalmers company, known for expensive high- quality cars, ceased production in 1. Chrysler.- Our full archive of the war, called Scientific American Chronicles: World War I, has many articles from 1. It is available for purchase at www.
Effie & Avis Hotchkiss – The First Women To Ride. A little over one hundred years ago, on May 2, 1915 Effie Hotchkiss. The Old Motor is a comprehensive online. Writer: Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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