Hotchkiss Avis, Hotchkiss Effie (w3377)
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- Description: Effie Hotchkiss (28 January 1889 - 14 April 1966) and her mother Avis Hotchkiss (born 1859) were pioneering motorcyclists from Brooklyn, New York. On 2 May 1915, Effie, aged 26, departed with Avis, aged 56, seated in the sidecar of a 1915 Harley-Davidson Model 11-F with a 3-speed gearbox. Their goal was to visit the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. They travelled via Albany, Buffalo and Chicago, averaging 150 miles per day, and reached San Francisco in August 1915, where Effie poured a jar of Atlantic seawater she had carried from New York into the Pacific Ocean. They immediately began the return journey, arriving back in Brooklyn in October 1915, having covered approximately 14,480 km (9,000 miles) in total. Effie and Avis Hotchkiss became the first women to complete a round-trip transcontinental motorcycle journey across the United States. Their story was the first ever published in the Harley-Davidson Enthusiast magazine
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avis_and_Effie_Hotchkiss
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4828966
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: "Brooklyn Girl Plans Long Motorcycle Trip". Orange County Times-Press. Middletown, New York. April 23, 1915.
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