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amazing story from joe sayward:
I know that sounds unlikely but it is nonetheless the truth. Alfred Ethelbert Moss, the son of Abraham Moss (who was born Moses rather than Moss, but changed the name, presumably to seem less Jewish and more English), was born in London in 1896. The family was fairly well off and that allowed Alfred to start competing in 1921, when he was 25, at the wheel of an AV Bicar, a 1000cc cyclecar that was built at the time in Teddington, in the Essex Motor Club Winter Trial through Epping Forest. In March 1923 he entered a Crouch-Anzani in the Junior Car Club's Trial at Brooklands and that season won some minor races at the celebrated speedway. He then managed to convince his grandfather that Indianapolis was the best place in the world to learn about dental bridgework and enrolled at the Indiana Dental College in order to study during 1924. However, it seems that the primary purpose of his visit was to race in the Indy 500 and on May 30 1924, Moss was at the wheel of one of the 22 cars that lined up for the big race at the Brickyard. This was one of the three "Fronty-Fords" entered by Indianapolis Ford dealers Hale Barber and Clarence Warnock, built by the Chevrolet brothers under the Frontenac name. The cars were raced by Moss, Bill Hunt and Fred Harder and finished 14th, 16th, and 17th. Alfred would go on to race at various other dirt tracks in the course of 1924 and 1925 before returning home, a better dentist.
