Yes, girls, too. In fact, if it hadn’t been for one—Mildred Mary Bruce—the famous Blower Bentley could have stayed an idea rolling around in Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin’s head. Bruce was even more daredevil than most of the Boys. One of her minor accomplishments was in 1929, when she single-handedly drove a lumbering great 4½ -liter Bentley non-stop around the Montlhéry circuit just outside Paris at an average of 89 mph for 24 hours to establish a world record, which was never…
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