Florence Margaret Charlotte Blenkiron
Florence Margaret Charlotte Blenkiron (1904-1991)
1904 April 24th. Born at Harmby, near Leyburn, Wensleydale, the daughter of John Blenkiron, shop keeper, and his wife Mary Ainsley
1934. Miss F. M. Blenkiron, a typist of Ealing, becomes the first woman to lap at more than 100 mph on a motorcycle at Brooklands. She is employed in the London office of a famous Sheffield steel firm.[1]
1934 December 11th. Left to race a motorcycle and trailer across the Sahara Desert with Theresa Elizabeth Wallach as the mechanic, and then on to Cape Town.[3] Rode a 600 c.c. motorcycle. Good progress reported in June 1935. Panther.[4].
1935 July 29th. Arrived in Cape Town. Planning to ride back.[5]
Wallach becomes ill and has to sail home to a nursing home in London. Blenkiron does the journey alone.[6]
1936 April 02nd. Reaches London after a 16 month journey.[7]
1943 Served in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.[8]
1946 Married Kenneth Malcolm Kingaby
1991 March 04th. Florence Margaret Charlotte Kingaby died at Peterborough.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Sheffield Independent - Monday 28 May 1934
- ↑ Sheffield Independent - Monday 03 December 1934
- ↑ Shields Daily News - Wednesday 12 December 1934
- ↑ Middlesex County Times - Saturday 15 June 1935
- ↑ Liverpool Echo - Monday 29 July 1935
- ↑ Liverpool Echo - Monday 29 July 1935
- ↑ Gloucester Citizen - Friday 03 April 1936
- ↑ London Gazette