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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/30/2016 5:39 PM, Dave wrote:<br>
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color="black" size="4"><font size="4">Voiced by Mel Blanc, no
less.</font>
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<font size="4"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes,
indeed, after a cock-up with the tape-recorded
mechanically-created special effects one evening.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.
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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.<br>
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Cheers, Dave.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Michael Porter
Roswell, NM
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....</pre>
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