Vista frontale di tre quarti di "Bessie", un turista edoardiano a 4 posti, in dono al dottor Who (Jon Pertwee, il terzo Dottore), del brigadiere Lethbridge Stewart, in mostra al National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire, Regno Unito
5365 x 3744 px | 45,4 x 31,7 cm | 17,9 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
28 agosto 2025
Ubicazione:
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire, UK
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An Edwardian Tourer body, constructed around a 1954 Ford Popular chassis, bearing the registration number WHO 1 and dubbed "Bessie", was used in the BBC television series Doctor Who, making her first appearance in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970). She provided a transport solution throughout the era of the Third Doctor, but was also used by the Fourth, and by the Seventh. Since 2017, Bessie has been exhibited in the On-Screen Cars collection of the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. When he had begun his exile on Earth, the Doctor (who had just regenerated and not fully recovered) stole an antique roadster parked in front of Ashbridge Cottage Hospital so that he could get around. He liked it, and, while seeing to it that the car returned to its rightful owner, the Brigadier said he thought he could get something like it. Bessie proved instrumental in capturing the Master. When he attempted to steal the Doctor's car and make good his escape following the events at Devil's End, the Doctor used his remote control to steer the Master back to the waiting UNIT soldiers, who took him into custody. Bessie was briefly pulled into Omega's universe during his attempt to capture the Doctor. Shortly after his companion Jo Grant left him the third incarnation of the Doctor had temporarily left Earth, his fifth incarnation arrived on Earth and borrowed Bessie while helping UNIT defeat the Xaranthi. The car was also abducted along with the Doctor into the Death Zone, where it was heavily damaged by one of the thunderbolts that periodically rained down upon the place. With his waning lack of interest in affairs in UNIT and Earth, the newly-regenerated Doctor only drove Bessie during his first adventure. At some point after this, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had it "put into mothballs". It was brought out briefly in the 1990s as the Brigadier and UNIT worked together with the Doctor's seventh incarnation to battle Morgaine.
