{"product_id":"fay-taylour-the-worlds-wonder-girl-9781399099387","title":"Fay Taylour The Worlds Wonder Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Her successes against men led to a ban on women competing against them in the UK, but Fay Taylour carried on, racing around the world. She also built a new career in long distance car racing and carved a name for herself in the new sport of midget car racing.All of this came to a halt with the outbreak of the Second World War, which, controversially, saw Fay Taylour join Oswald Mosley's fascist movement and become part of an underground pro-Hitler campaign in London. She was imprisoned for three years by the British authorities. After the war, she was one of the very few pre-war women motorsports champions to return to the track. She re-established her career with highly successful tours in Europe,","brand":"Pen \u0026 Sword Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738901000535,"sku":"9781399099387","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399099387.jpg?v=1720050529","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fay-taylour-the-worlds-wonder-girl-9781399099387","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}