The first female motorbike messengers for the aircraft industry are these silken-clad misses who speed inter-organization communications from Los Angeles headquarters to the three Timm plants. All professional riders, left to right--Chief Messenger Phyllis Domich, Dora "Babe" Duncan, and Janet Spangenberg. They are posed outside the W. M. Garland Building.
Domich, Phyllis Duncan, Dora "Babe Spangenberg, Janet Timm Aircraft Motorcycles Women employees Messengers World War, 1939-1945 War work Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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