[1] Henry Hewetson who was a businessman from Tunbridge Wells had bought a Benz car while on a trip to Germany.
In 1895 or 1896 he and his partner Walter Arnold opened a showroom[2] near to where Bazalgette was now living off Portman Square.
This was the first time that cars were allowed to do 14 mph and it was the first meeting of the Automobile Club (for male drivers).
She completed the course which ran from 23 April to 12 May starting and ending in London with Edinburgh being their destination.
[2] Before Louise Bazalgette died in Marylebone in 1918, she realised that there was no room beside her husband's grave for her.