page_title: Blanche Scott
section_title: Automobile adventure
hierarchical_section_title: Blanche Scott / Biography / Automobile adventure
caption_attribution_description: Blanche Stuart Scott stopped in Toledo, Ohio during the Lady Overland motor trip in 1910. The cross country trip was sponsored by Willys-Overland and promoted her journey from New York to San Francisco.
context_page_description: Blanche Stuart Scott, also known as Betty Scott, was possibly the first American woman aviator.
context_section_description: In 1910 Scott became the second woman, after Alice Huyler Ramsey, to drive an automobile across the United States and the first driving westwards from New York City to San Francisco, California. The trip was sponsored by the Willys-Overland Company and the car was named the "Lady Overland". Scott and her passenger, a woman reporter called Gertrude Buffington Phillips, left New York on May 16, 1910, and reached San Francisco on July 23, 1910. The New York Times wrote on May 17, 1910:
  Miss Scott, with Miss Phillips as only companion, starts on long trip with the object of demonstrating the possibility of a woman driving a motor car across the country and making all the necessary repairs en route. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott yesterday started in an Overland automobile on a transcontinental journey which will end in San Francisco.
caption: Blanche Scott's Lady Overland motor trip stopping in Toledo, approximately 1910
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