It is a four-seat touring car with an enormous bonnet, or hood.

The car, a 'Paragon Panther', was the sole production of the Paragon motor-car company before it went bankrupt. Three sequels to Fleming's book have been published, all written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce.Ĭommander Caractacus Pott is an inventor who buys and renovates an old car after gaining money from inventing and selling whistle-like sweets to Lord Skrumshus, the wealthy owner of a local confectionery factory. In April 2011 a BBC Radio 4 Extra adaptation was broadcast with Imogen Stubbs as the voice of Chitty. The story was also adapted as a stage musical under the same name. Broccoli, co-producer of the James Bond film series. It was the last book he wrote and he did not live to see it published.Ĭhitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was loosely adapted as a 1968 film of the same name with a screenplay by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes a subsequent novelisation was also published. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Whigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co.

It was initially published in three volumes, the first of which was released on 22 October 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London.įleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called ' Chitty Bang Bang', built by Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham.

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