Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you

get some sleep. So find a comfortable spot, Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go.

Tonight by listener request let's return to more from a charming and instructive work.

The Woman and the Car, a chatty little handbook for all women who motor or who want to motor by Dorothy Levitt

edited with introductory articles by see being hall illustrated by photographs specially taken.

First published in 1999 by John Lane Company,

London and New York.

Let's pick up our instruction right where we left off.

Chapter 4.

How to Drive Therefore, how to drive.

Fire in the heart of me, moving and chattering.

Youth in each part of me, slender and strong.

Light and tremendous, I bear you along.

These lines, I feel sure, appeal to every motorist as they exactly describe the little

car in motion.

Starting one's engine is not the nicest thing about motoring when a woman is acting as her

own driver and mechanism. But with the little cars, no strength is required.

It is only the big cars that need a swelling of muscle.

There is a great knack in starting an engine, but this once overcome ceases to be hard work.

In front of the car you will notice a handle. Push it inwards until you feel it fit into a

notch. Then pull it up sharply. Releasing your hold of the handle the moment you feel you have pulled it over the resisting

or compression point.

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