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== History == | == History == | ||
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In [[London]], [[1924]], while on their way to the [[British Empire Exhibition]], [[Ninth | In [[London]], [[1924]], while on their way to the [[British Empire Exhibition]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] explained to [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] that black was the old silver for that time. ([[PROSE]]: '' [[The Clockwise Man (novel)|The Clockwise Man]]'') | ||
In [[1926]], [[Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie's]] car was left abandoned by a lake on the night her memory lapsed in the struggle against the [[Vespiform]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') | In [[1926]], [[Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie's]] car was left abandoned by a lake on the night her memory lapsed in the struggle against the [[Vespiform]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') | ||
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During his exile on [[Earth]], the [[Third Doctor]] drove a yellow roadster called "[[Bessie]]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''). [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]] procured Bessie to persuade the Doctor to work with [[UNIT]] after the Doctor had expressed fondness for a similar vehicle he had "borrowed" shortly after arriving on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'') A time eddy snatched the Third Doctor, along with Bessie, out of 20th century Earth into the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') Bessie remained on Earth in UNIT's care when the Doctor regained his [[time travel]] knowledge. It was used by his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth]], [[Seventh Doctor|seventh]] and [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnations]] on subsequent visits to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'', ''[[Battlefield]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'') | During his exile on [[Earth]], the [[Third Doctor]] drove a yellow roadster called "[[Bessie]]" ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''). [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]] procured Bessie to persuade the Doctor to work with [[UNIT]] after the Doctor had expressed fondness for a similar vehicle he had "borrowed" shortly after arriving on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'') A time eddy snatched the Third Doctor, along with Bessie, out of 20th century Earth into the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') Bessie remained on Earth in UNIT's care when the Doctor regained his [[time travel]] knowledge. It was used by his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth]], [[Seventh Doctor|seventh]] and [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnations]] on subsequent visits to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'', ''[[Battlefield]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'') | ||
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart was occasionally seen to travel in a chauffeur-driven Ford Zodiac staff car. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'' to [[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'' | Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart was occasionally seen to travel in a chauffeur-driven Ford Zodiac staff car. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'' to [[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'' intermittently) He drove the car himself on one occasion, when he used it as a getaway vehicle to escape from the Space Centre following its takeover by General [[Carrington]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death]]'') His own personal cars were a blue Austin Maxi ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]''), and an unidentified white convertible ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'') | ||
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