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

This Morning's News Items

... and severely savaged a calf belonging to Mr. Tom Hancock, Middle-lane. Trowbridge. Across Africa on Motor-Cycle.—Miss Florence Blenkiron, the Englishwoman, who with a companion recently motor-cycled from Cairo to Capetown, left Nairobi yesterday for Kano ...

Published: Sunday 27 October 1935
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FEARED LOST IN THE DESERT DAUGHTER OP SPITTAL WOMAN

... of Miss Florence Blenkiron ,tlie London racing motor-cyclist, whose mother belongs -to Splttai, have been ex- reesed by her family. Mias Blenklron Is journeying alone by motorcycle across Africa, and In Interview, he.' mother. Mrs J. Blenkiron. who is ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1935
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

His Farthing D t mages

... taken up duty at Croydon after reinstatement in the Force. * * * Motor-cycling across Africa two London girls, Miss Florence Blenkiron and Miss Theresa Wallach, have arrived at Nairobi (Kenya).—Reuter, * Stepped to Her Death.—When she stepped from a car ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1935
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 234 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WOMAN OF THE WEEK

... career, said Miss Florence Blenkiron when she outlined her anywhere by taxi ' enterprise. She has advertised offering to drive people to almost any part of the earth by taxi. She has new ideas about holidays too. Miss Blenkiron believes that people ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1937
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 243 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MOTOR-CYCLE GIRLS AT THE CAPE

... PERILOUS TRIP ACROSS THE SAHARA IFTER many perilous adventures on a motor-cycle journey from London two English girls, Miss Florence Blenkiron and Miss Theresa E. Wallach, arrived Capetown yesterday. They had been more than seven months on their way, having left ...

Published: Tuesday 30 July 1935
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 3 | 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 ...

WOMAN'S CAPE TO LONDON RIDE

... WOMAN'S CAPE TO LONDON RIDE By Motor Cycle LADY ASTOR GREETS DESERT VOYAGER Riding her red machine Venture 11., Miss Florence Blenkiron, the only Brooklands woman motor cycle racer possess the coveted Gold Star, reached South Africa House, Trafalgar-square ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1936
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WOMAN TAKES SIXTEEN MONTHS

... WOMAN TAKES SIXTEEN MONTHS. Riding her machine, Miss Florence Blenkiron. the only Brooklands woman motor-cycle racer to possess the coveted gold star, reached South African House, Trafalgar Square, yesterday afternoon and thus concluded a 16 months' journey ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1936
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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

M. C. J. Torben

... from South Brighton. and at one time worked in Norfolk. He IS a native of Eye. East Suffolk Back Fro= Cape Tows. Miss Florence Blenkiron. the Ealing girl motor cyclist who set out In September. 1934. to motor cycle to Cape Town and back, has returned. She ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1936
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 257 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS

... be depOsited in the War Memorial Chapel of the Cathedral, where already repose the service hat talione Colours. Miss Florence Blenkiron and Miss Theresa Wallach. two London girls, motor-cycling from Algiers to Cape Town. have arrived at Broken Hill. North ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1935
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 310 | Page: 10 | Tags: none