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Widgeon Seven - a Sunbeam?

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Ken Miner

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Apr 28, 2006, 2:28:30 PM4/28/06
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After all the talk a while back about Bertie's Widgeon Seven two-seater, I
noticed a sketch of it in Usborne, p. 86, with the comment "probably a
Sunbeam". According to the net Sunbeams were made in Britain from 1899 to
1981.

The odd thing is, in the drawing both Bertie and Jeeves are in the car, and
Jeeves is driving. I don't recall that ever happening.

Ken


David M. Harris

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Apr 28, 2006, 5:21:34 PM4/28/06
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Of course, Maxwell Smart, the Bertie of spies, also drove a Sunbeam (in
the early episodes; later, I think, it was a Karmann-Ghia).

dmh

Mike Schilling

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Apr 28, 2006, 5:28:15 PM4/28/06
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> Of course, Maxwell Smart, the Bertie of spies,

Much luckier with women, though. (Madeleine Bassett, Florence Craye, or
Agent 99? Not really a question, is it?)

charles Stone-Tolcher

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Apr 28, 2006, 6:50:00 PM4/28/06
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On the cover of "Code of the Woosters" (5th printing) it shows Bertie and
Jeeves in a car and Bertie is in the driver's seat.

Pillingshot

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Ian Michaud, TWS

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Apr 28, 2006, 7:02:09 PM4/28/06
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Ken Miner wrote:
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> The odd thing is, in the drawing both Bertie and Jeeves are in the car, and
> Jeeves is driving. I don't recall that ever happening.

They weren't in the two-seater at the time, but in the short story
"Bertie Changes His Mind" Jeeves was behind the wheel and Bertie was in
the back seat when they picked up the hitch-hiking Peggy Mainwaring.
Then at the story's conclusion Jeeves was still driving and Bertie was
hiding under a rug on the floor of the back seat as they left the
schoolyard.

The Mixer

Brian Wagstaff

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Apr 29, 2006, 7:26:04 AM4/29/06
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In Jeeves in the Offing, Bertie collects Jeeves from Herne Bay, where Jeeves
is on a shrimping holiday, and drives him to Brinkley Court to extract
Bertie from the soup. It is clear that Bertie is driving, because he
mentions "twiddling the wheel to avoid a passing hen." (Chapter 11)

I don't think he mentions the brand of car it is, beyond describing it as
"an Arab steed" which gets "taken with a fit of vapours" on the way to Herne
Bay, but the Penguin edition which I have has on its cover a picture by
Ionicus of a yellow two seater with Bertie driving and Jeeves holding onto
his hat. The licence number is BW IO5.

wag

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