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...was the slang name of the Leave note that soldiers received to visit French prostitutes in WW1.

Are you having a random 'Kevin Turvey moment', Duke???
I believe it's also in the lyrics to an old soldier's song/chant.... for the life of me I can't remember which war movie it was in.

The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang scared the sh!t out of me when I was a wee bairn. Still does, come to think about it. Creepy fecker.

He's right. You know what's chitty is.

A double chitty was extended leave so they used to use them to go to Paris and party with the ladies.

Whilst that military slang is correct . The car that Fleming based his book ( a child's version of "Bond" type story, written for his son Casper) the magical car was named after Louis Zborowski's 1920's racing cars.
Below is an image of Zborowski himself driving Chitty Bang Bang 1

Hth.

StMarks wrote:Whilst that military slang is correct . The car that Fleming based his book ( a child's version of "Bond" type story, written for his son Casper) the magical car was named after Louis Zborowski's 1920's racing cars.
Below is an image of Zborowski himself driving Chitty Bang Bang 1

Hth.

And that car was named after the original meaning, so I read yesterday.

My Dad took me to see one of the movie cars when I was a little kid... it was on display at a car dealership in Sunderland, Easington, or Peterlee...or some other hillbilly place like that.

I sat in the film car in 76 at the London Irish Rugby football club , they were filming an episode of " It's a Knockout" they also had several Daleks on display .

It seems that the castle that appears in the film is the same castle James Garner & Donald Pleasance fly past during their Great Escape. Then they crash-land.