[TR] 1948 triumph rumble seat roadster

[Michael Porter]

On 8/30/2016 5:39 PM, Dave wrote:
> Voiced by Mel Blanc, no less.
>
>
Yes, indeed, after a cock-up with the tape-recorded mechanically-created 
special effects one evening.

As best as I can find from listings like h2g2, the Triumph 1800 only 
appears in two productions.  The first, the British film "The Smallest 
Show on Earth," in 1957 (released elsewhere as "Big Time Operators"), 
and later, in the long-running BBC cop show, "Bergerac," during the `80s.

Benny's car was a Maxwell, with, apparently, three different license 
plate numbers, although there's some dispute on the intertoobz about the 
vintage.  h2g2 says it was a 1923 Tourer, but Wikipedia describes two 
cars used on the television show--first, a 1916 Model 25 Tourer, and 
later, the 1923 Tourer.

Curiously, the car lasted five years on the radio show.  It was in the 
scripts from the start in 1937, but, in a 1942 episode, Benny hands it 
over to the junkyard during a war-materiel scrap drive.  And, then, it 
just reappears in the radio scripts a few years later, as if it had 
never been gone.


Cheers, Dave.

-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....

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