RESTORED FACE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 381, 12 March 1937, Page 2

RESTORED FACE.

Crashed Speedway Rider. (By Air Mail). London, February 13. A remarkable feat of plastic surgery, which has restored the battered lace of Fred Tate, the speedway rider, is nearly complete. And then Tate will marry the fiancee Who has cheered him throughout countless operations. "Except for a minor operation to adjust the position of my right eye in relation to the left, I need no further treatment,” he said this week. “This operation Is to be performed shortly and I anticipate that, as a result, I shall become more or less normal in appearance.”- Ever since he crashed to disfigurement ip. June, 10 surgeons have been striving to save Ta'te’s. smashed face. At one time his life was despaired of, and his fiancee-, Miss Angel Wilton, of Retford. Ins watched over him devotedly. “I like Fred as he Is at the moment,” she says, “and 1 am not at .all sure that I want him to undergo this operation in two 'Weeks’ time. It will be ths lust operation in what has been a marvellous series, but 'before Fred goes under the anaesthetic 1 think I should like to be married. Fred' is perfectly fit again, but he will never race any more.”