Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the vintage racing car which features in the book, musical film and stage production of the same name. Writer Ian Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s, christened "Chitty Bang Bang". The original Chitty Bang Bang's engine was from a Zeppelin dirigible. The name reputedly derived either from the sound it made whilst idling, or from a bawdy song from World War I. Six versions of the car were built for the film and
Edward Chitty in 1839. Besides his share in "Deacon & Chitty" he was the author of: He also published the "Fly-Fisher's Text Book" (1841) under the pseudonym of Theophilus South. An illustrated version came out in 1845. His Jamaican work on snails (on which he had also written with C.B.Adams) was published as "On the Jamaican "Cyclotus", and Descriptions of Twenty-one proposed New Species and Two New Varieties of that Subgenus from Jamaica" and "On "Stoastomidae" as a family and on seven proposed new genera, sixty-one new species, and two new varieties from Jamaica." in 1857. Edward Chitty Edward Chitty (1804–1863) was