Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang 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. It was initially published in three volumes, the first of which was released on 22 October 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London. Fleming, 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 Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming
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