Topic: Who What and When #1791 - 1909 / Alice Huyler Ramsey / Maxwell

[Otto Puzzell]

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[Otto Puzzell]

Perhaps the Experts can assist these ladies.

[Aaron65]

Is this Alice Ramsay with her 1909 Maxwell on her cross-country journey?

[Otto Puzzell]

Well done!

In 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey, of Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. Challenged by a sales manager for Maxwell-Briscoe Company, she drove one of the company's touring cars from New York to San Francisco. The company sponsored and publicised the trip to persuade the American public that cars were here to stay. American roads were still often unimproved in 1909, and Ramsey and her three female passengers packed a block and tackle and used it often in the muddy Midwest.