Drives a Car With His Toes

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 7

Drives a Car With His Toes

I ARMLESS WALL OF DEATH RIDEB I IS DIVING EXPERT, TOO. Can you be said to have lost anything you never had 1 ? "Wall of Death” rider Alfred Myers, who is 21 and son of a Lichfield (Staffs, England) dentist, was born without arms. On an- application form for a licence to drive a car" he put ‘'No” to the question "Have you lost cither han': or foot or are you suffering from defect in movement control of muscular power of either arm or leg?” He was lined 10s for making a falst statement for the purpose of obtaining a licence to drive a motor-ear. For the defence it was contender that as Myers had never had any arm? he had never lost any. I He had proved his ability to driv. | by driving his car through Birmin? ham, and he was an expert mechanic by doing everything with his toes. Myers told the magistrates that, n addition to giving "Wall of Death’ rides, he was also a professional dive and gave swimming demonstrations. As he was an expert motor driver hi did not consider he had made a falsi statement.