[TR] 1948 triumph rumble seat roadster

[Dave]

That's the beauty of fiction.  No need to worry about non-sequiturs like that.

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 Cheers.


Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com>
To: Dave <dave1massey at cs.com>; triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 5:24 am
Subject: Re: [TR] 1948 triumph rumble seat roadster


    
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.
          
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Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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