[TR] 1948 triumph rumble seat roadster on tele

[wbeech]

More recently, making the rounds is this humorous vintage TV ad for the TR6
and 1500 that includes an 1800/2000 Roadster at the close.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_b2trPkrns
 
 
Bill B
 
 
 
From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael
Porter
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 5:25 AM
To: Dave <dave1massey at cs.com>; triumphs at autox.team.net
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.


-- 
 
 
Michael Porter
Roswell, NM
 
 
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking
distance....
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