ONE ARM DRIVER.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 11

ONE ARM DRIVER.

AN OVERLAND TRIP. One of the most remarkable overlanding feats in recent years was concludcd when Mr A. J. Bishop concluded at Sydney a 4000-miles trip from Perth (says the Guardian”). He is one-armed. He drove the whole journey without assistance. ThO ( hero of this exploit lost his left arm over there. ’ The manager of a real estate firm in Perth, he took up motoring about three years ago. How successfully he overcame his tremendous handicap is best indicated by the trip, which lasted five and a-half weeks. But to sit beside Mr Bishop at the driving wheel is to understand how it is that the visitor has driven over 30,000 miles all told without mishap. The one-armed driver starts off just the average motorist. Or rather he starts off perfectly. To change gears he reaches his hand through the wheel, at the same time steering with the crook of liis elbow. And in this gear changing it would require a keen ear to detect the noise. All told, Mr Bishop is a better driver than the great majority of more fortunate motorists. Mrs Bishop has accompanied her husband from the West. It is a holiday trip, and, with the arrival at Sydney, it is but half over. The Bishops are motoring back as they came, in an Essex sedan. It is a standard job—there’s not a single gadget in it that would help a one-armed driver.

Man is something that can see a pretty ankle three blocks away while driving a motorcar in a crowded city street, but fails to notice, in the wide open countryside, the approach of a locomotive the size of a schoolhouse and accompanied by a flock of forty-two cars.— “Highways Magazine.”