'The family was not amused...'

Harm Noorman (NL) sends this photo of a chaming young lady on the running board of a C4 Amilcar. It is his late grandmother: "My grandma went for a holiday in Switzerland with this car in 1930. It was very unusual - not to say 'not done' -for a young woman in her twenties to go for a holiday with a gentleman while unmarried...! Also this man was not my later grandfather. From my father (the son who came eventually) I understand that 'the Swiss trip' was not a popular topic in family circles... At the same time my grandmother did not make a secret of the trip.
(editor: a modern self assured woman, very much in the Amilcar tradition of Isadora Duncan. Who by the way lived in Noordwijk, Netherlands for some time in 1906.
This weekend you will find flocks of Amilcars under the big oak tree at the foot of Prescott Hill, VSCC's Speed Hillclimb weekend !(VSCC.co.uk)

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