I love the lady Mayoress rising her tricycle!
Meanwhile, Mrs. Lilian F. Evans of Dagenham was performing a different kind of war service. In October 1942 The Spheree^ reported that Lilian Evans was due to be made Mayor of Dagenham on 9 November 1942, the town’s first woman mayor. She was set also to be the first ‘chief’ of the Women’s Voluntary Service to become a mayor, as well as being ‘the first woman mayor to ride a tricycle.’
Lillian Evans used her tricycle, which was a gift from the British War Relief Association of Northern California, to ‘take tea to bombed people in her district,’ something she vowed to continue to do once she became mayor.