Betty and Nancy Debenham

[1] By 1923, the two were already well-known colourful figures,[2] sometimes working as stunt riders to promote motorcycle sales at events such as the Olympia Motor Show.

[6][7] A few weeks later, Nancy Debenham came out on top in a 200-mile reliability trial organized by the London Motor Cycling Club involving about 40 riders, mostly men.

[9] Having already completed 600 miles in wintery conditions, and earned a few shillings helping stranded motorists, they headed north and encountered better weather.

[9] They made more money by posing for photographs and writing about their journey, and at one point delivered a tyre for a local garage in exchange for petrol and oil.

She can gather her violets and primroses from the woods instead of buying them in jaded twopenny bunches, and her whole week-end's holiday need only cost her the price of her return fare to Brighton.Betty Debenham was press secretary for the London Ladies' Motor Club.