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}}'''Cars''', or '''automobiles''', were a common means of transport for [[human]]s on [[Earth]] in the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st]] centuries. By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there were eight hundred million cars. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | }} | ||
'''Cars''', or '''automobiles''', were a common means of transport for [[human]]s on [[Earth]] in the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st]] centuries. By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there were eight hundred million cars. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | |||
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A black Jaguar with dark-tinted windows was used by a [[C19]] operative at one point to spy on [[James Stevens]] during his investigations into UNIT. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') | A black Jaguar with dark-tinted windows was used by a [[C19]] operative at one point to spy on [[James Stevens]] during his investigations into UNIT. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') | ||
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 (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') | During his exile on [[Earth]], the [[Third Doctor]] drove a yellow roadster called "[[Bessie]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|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 (TV story)|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 (TV story)|Battlefield]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') | ||
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart occasionally travelled 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]]''), a blue 1929 Humber 16/50 open tourer, Imperial model, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'') and a white [[Mercedes]] convertible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'') | Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart occasionally travelled 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]]''), a blue 1929 Humber 16/50 open tourer, Imperial model, ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'') and a white [[Mercedes]] convertible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'') | ||
