By this I mean that they must not only familiarize themselves with electric washing machines, fires and cookers, but possess sufficient technical knowledge to enable them to repair fuses and make other minor adjustments.

Only by doing so will women learn to value electricity's cheapness and utility, and regard it as a power to rescue them from all unnecessary household labours.

Soon after the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901), the Moirs travelled through the interior of China to oversee the construction of a railway in Honan (Henan), even though Margaret had been refused a permit because of the presumed danger to a western woman of undertaking such a journey.

On completion of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1897, Margaret Moir became the first woman to walk under the River Thames from Kent to Middlesex.

Following the Shell Crisis of 1915, and the consequent employment of huge numbers of women in munitions factories, Margaret Moir's empathy with working people prompted her to organise a relief scheme to give weekend respite to full-time workers; their places were taken by Lady Moir and her colleagues.

[7][8] In recognition of her wartime work, in 1920 Margaret Moir was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

'[10] The work of professional women in many spheres interested her, and it was at her house in London that Mary, Lady Bailey and Amy Johnson lectured on their return from their flights, one round Africa and the other to Australia.