Elsie "Bill" Wisdom white unisex Cotton T-Shirt

• Drawing out of a series of portraits of world famous racing drivers and their sports- and racing cars.
• Made in pencil on paper.
• Elsie Mary Wisdom (1904 – 1972), also known as "Bill Wisdom", was an English automobile racer. She was one of the first women to win a race for both male and female drivers at Brooklands.
• Elsie Gleed learned to drive motorcycles and automobiles as a young woman. She started racing casually in the 1920s, but in 1930 her new husband Tommy Wisdom signed her up for a women-only race at Brooklands. She won that race. The following year she set the women's time record at Shelsley Walsh, and in 1932 she took the women's speed record at Brooklands. Also in 1932, Bill Wisdom and Joan Richmond of Australia won the JCC 1000 Mile Race at Brooklands—a major race in which they were the only team of women.
• In 1933, she was the only female member of the six-person Aston Martin team at Le Mans. She was one of four women invited to compete in the Brooklands 500 in 1935. She and her partner Dorothy Stanley-Turner finished 23rd at the 1938 24 Hours of Le Mans.