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TWICE ACROSS SAHARA

... TWICE ACROSS SAHARA. BRITISH WOMAN MOTOR CYCLIST'S FEAT. Miss Florence Blenkiron, of Richmond, Yorks., the English motor cyclist who last September set out alone from Capetown to motor cycle acro-s Africa to Algiers, arrived at Algiers yesterday. She ...

Published: Tuesday 11 February 1936
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ELEPHANTS THRILL FOR GIRL

... LONE MOTOR CYCLE TRIP THROUGH AFRICAN JUNGLE. Will elephants are the latest danger to successfully side-stepped Miss Florence Blenkiron, the British motor cyclist now returning home to London alone through Africa from Capetown. In a letter to the Daily ...

DESERT AND JUNGLE

... motor-cycle from London to Cape Town with many thrill in the desert and jungle stretches Africa, two English girls. Miss Florence Blenkiron and Miss Theresa E. Wallach. arrived the end their journey to-day. They had been more than seven months on their way ...

Published: Tuesday 30 July 1935
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Another Londonderry Bride

... their demonstration it looked pretty and graceful. Not So Modem. There is a lesson for modem women In the tastes of Miss Florence Blenkiron and Misa Theresa Wallach, who started off from London this week to travel by motor cycle Cape Town. These young women ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1934
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 572 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MINESWEEPERS' WAR EPIC STORY

... CYCLING TRTT. Miss Florence Blenkiron, of Richmond, Yorkshire, on© fhe two girl*, who motor-cycled from Cairo to Capetown, has left alone on a trip. Her companion. Miss Theresa Waliach, has already loft for England by fhip. Miss Blenkiron and Miss Wal'aeh ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1935
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

B-MEN OUT IN BELFAST

... that she had meant to give it to a priest for good works. MOTOR CYCLE GIRLS JOHANNESBURG. Two London girls, the Misses Florence Blenkiron and Theresa Waliach, who eet out from Algiers on December 19th to motor-cycle across Africa, arrived Johannesburg yesterday ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1935
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 524 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THRILLS OF WOMEN'S RIDE ACROSS AFRICA

... Englishwomen who made the first trip by motor cycle from London to Capetown, is eagerly awaiting news from her partner, Miss Florence Blenkiron, who on the last African lap of the return journey. Wal, a 27-year-old electrical engineer, and Blenk, 29-year-old ...

Published: Monday 03 February 1936
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... fastest time in the women’s class on four occasions. After her daring motor-cycle dash from Algiers to Cape Town with Miss Florence Blenkiron, typist and racing motor-cyclist. Miss Amy Johnson paid a tribute to them as having done a thing she “would not contemplate ...

Published: Tuesday 17 May 1938
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 646 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CITY CURRENT FAILURE

... degrees included Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir John Reit>h. GIRL MOTOR CYCLISTS REACH RHODESIA. ALGIERS TO CAPE ATTEMPT. Miss Florence Blenkiron and Miss Theresa Wallach, the two London girls who are motor cycling across Africa from Algiers to Capetown, arrived ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1935
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 749 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CULTIVATING SALADS IN WINTER

... fitting out the basins. ACROSS THE SAHARA MOTOR CYCLE. YORKSHIRE GIRL'S TRIP. Two British women motor cyclists, Miss Florence Blenkiron, and her mechanic, T. £. Wallach, left London on December 11th on motor evelo trip to the Cape and back, left Algiers ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1934
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Girls Begin Big Venture. Crossing Sahara on Motor-cycles. Two young English girls were cheered by a crowd In ..

... desert. The daring couple are Miss Florence Charlotte Margaret Blenkiron, who was born at Harmby, near Richmond, Yorkshire, and Miss Theresa Elizabeth Wallach, who was born at Stowe, Bucks. Prize Winners. Miss Blenkiron was for a number years secretary ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1934
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SUGAR TARIFF WANTED

... but apparently these three remained. ACROSS DESERT BY MOTOR CYCLE LONDON GIRLS DESCRIRE JOURNEY AS UNEVENTFUL. Miss Florence Blenkiron and Miss Theresa Wallack. the two London girls who are on motor-cycle journey across Africa, arrived Kampala (Uganda) ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1935
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2039 | Page: 10 | Tags: none