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Re: [TR] 1948 triumph rumble seat roadster

To: mdporter@dfn.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] 1948 triumph rumble seat roadster
From: Dave <dave1massey@cs.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:25:02 -0400
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That's the beauty of fiction.  No need to worry about non-sequiturs like that.

;-)

 

 Cheers.


Dave Massey


 

 

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From: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>
To: Dave <dave1massey@cs.com>; triumphs <triumphs@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


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


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size="4">That's the beauty of fiction.&nbsp; No need to worry about 
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original 
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From: Michael Porter &lt;mdporter@dfn.com&gt;<br>

To: Dave &lt;dave1massey@cs.com&gt;; triumphs 
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Sent: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 5:24 am<br>

Subject: Re: [TR] 1948 triumph rumble seat roadster<br>

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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/30/2016 5:39 PM, Dave wrote:<br>


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    <blockquote cite="about:blank"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" 
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.&nbsp; 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>


        <br>


        Benny's car was a Maxwell, with, apparently, three different
        license plate numbers, although there's some dispute on the
        intertoobz about the vintage.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;
        <br>


        <br>


        Curiously, the car lasted five years on the radio show.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; And, then, it just reappears in the radio scripts a few
        years later, as if it had never been gone.<br>


        &nbsp; <br>


        <br>


        Cheers, Dave.<br>


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Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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