The Captain's Car usually on the bonnet, was missing, and so the car had to be driven back to London immediately for the missing emblem to be retrieved. The same car was used by Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in the BBC's To The Manor Born, and in other British and Hollywood films. The Captain's Car The Captain's Car is the fifth episode of the seventh series of the British comedy series "Dad's Army" that was originally transmitted on Friday 13 December 1974. The platoon inherit a Rolls-Royce car and have to prepare for a visiting French General. Lady Maltby arrives to see Captain Mainwaring in
Nouveau riche an upper class. As a pejorative term, "nouveau riche" affects distinctions of type, the given stratum within a social class; hence, among the rich people of a social class, "nouveau riche" describes the vulgarity and ostentation of the newly rich man or woman who lacks the worldly experience and the system of values of "old money", of inherited wealth, such as the patriciate, the nobility and the gentry. The idea of "nouveau riche" dates at least as far back as ancient Greece (). In the 6th century BC, the poet and aristocrat Theognis of Megara wrote how "in former days,