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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited January 28 Posts: 16,886
    It's a Morris Minor van by the looks of it (or Morris O Type). It's Royal Mail one. As I remember in the titles, hasn't it got a gunner or something in it?

    EDIT: Yes, here you go, from 007 magazine:

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  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    Posts: 4,361
    Nice find! I wonder where in the film the scene would have taken place. Does anyone know this or are there screenplays around that contain Q's Royal Mail lorry?
  • moneyofpropre2moneyofpropre2 France
    Posts: 862
    zebrafish wrote: »
    Nice find! I wonder where in the film the scene would have taken place. Does anyone know this or are there screenplays around that contain Q's Royal Mail lorry?

    From my book Scripting 007 :

    "Unlike the film, gas parking meters were the fourth gadget Bond and the audience were supposed to see in the Q-lab. In the script there are three others before: a small fire truck whose fire hoses do not spit water but flame-thrower style fire, a long stick with an artificial hand at the end which is used to activate a switch on a wall (there is an explosion when it is activated and the hand disintegrates), and a General Post Office van whose sides fall and reveal two men behind machine guns and a radio operator. On the other hand, there is no bulletproof vest "gadget" in the script".
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited January 29 Posts: 16,886
    That's cool. By the looks of the clip in the opening titles the van gag was cut out just before Bond starts talking to Q.
    It probably tightened the scene up, plus maybe they thought it undermined the Aston Martin having machine guns a bit? This was the very first armed Bond car, so I guess seeing a humble van with a much bigger machine gun in it seconds before rather stole its thunder!
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