Baker, Nina (2005) Women car designers and cars for women : the Arrol Galloway and the Volvo YCC. In: Annual conference of the Women's Engineering Society, 2005-09-01, York. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This is the tale of two cars for women in two centuries. One was a prototype design and the other went into production. This is the tale of a hidden history, a whisper of silent sources and a song of unsung heroines. Dorothee Pullinger's career as an aero and auto engineer is an example to us all of blithe disregard for convention and of successful self-education. She was an active engineer and business woman in the first half of the twentieth century. You may recently have seen in the media that a team of women at Volvos have designed a car for women, widely hailed as a first. A great success for them but not a first by any means. This paper will compare the two stories of two cars for women at the beginnings of their respective centuries.
| Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| ID code: | 38140 |
| Keywords: | concept car, concept design, car design, femail engineers, cars for women, Arrol Galloway, Volvo YCC, Mechanical engineering and machinery, History (General) |
| Subjects: | Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery History > History (General) |
| Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Architecture |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2012 10:37 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 17:36 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/38140 |
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