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    Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt (born Elizabeth Levi; 5 January 1882 – 17 May 1922) was a British racing driver and journalist. She was the first British woman...
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    Retrieved 2014-07-15. "Scarf and Goggles, Dorothy Levitt – The Fastest Girl on Water. Profile of Levitt's Motor Yachting races". Archived from the original...
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  • Levitt (b. 1931), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chad Levitt (b. 1975), American NFL football player Dorothy Levitt (1882–1922)...
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    the BBC Four program Penelope Keith and the Fast Lady (Aaron Syer), Dorothy Levitt first coined the phrase glove compartment as she advised motorists to...
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    Motor or Who Want to Motor is a book by Dorothy Levitt, first published in 1909. From 1903 until 1908 Levitt wrote a motoring column for The Graphic,...
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    Research, Dorothy Levitt – early motoring The Woman and the Car – a Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor Or Who Want to Motor by Dorothy Levitt. pages...
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    Edge's eye for publicity created a world first when, on 2 October, Dorothy Levitt won her class at the Southport Speed Trials driving his 12 Hp Gladiator...
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    Penelope Keith and the Fast Lady, a one-off documentary for BBC Four about Dorothy Levitt, the Edwardian motoring pioneer. She presented the four-part BBC documentary...
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    unofficial women's records have long been claimed, seemingly starting with Dorothy Levitt's 1906 record in Blackpool, England, and, unlike the FIA and other car-racing...
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    elements, meant clothing had to be functional and warm. Sports motorist Dorothy Levitt – author of the 1909 handbook The Woman and the Car and dubbed 'the...
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