THERE seems no end to
the information Extra
readers have sent in
following our appeal for
news of Chitty Bang
- Edith Webb, of Fisher
R5ad"'C, anT'éf5}_1_1y*, told us
o er _ er, one of the
men who worked on the
first car at B1igh’s. »
She was 'ust 15 when
she fin? one oi fie
ount s vis C balls at
gllggam and writes:
' eryone from Bligh’s
was drunk, including my
father, with perhaps the
one exception of my
mother,’ who was too
busy keeping an eye on
the Count in case he
asked her to dance.”
As one of the clerks
employed by Louis, Mr R.
Styles, of The Ness,
Canterbury, was also in-
vited to t.he  ball.
“When he was killed
he left two or fie iefi
w es for aflthe servants
m' %1'§ employ? m'» eluding
e garage employees
ho o oled their money
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It was iirom the same
source --that Louis’
mechanic,MrLenMartin,
was able  open his
Few people _ever
actually got to ride in
Chitty with the -Count,
but among them was Mr
Leslie Wooldridge, of
'C0xhill, Shepherdswell,
who 
“The Count very often
drove to ‘Dover to ex-
change his empty fuel
 for full ones and we
youngsters would some-'
times sit at the top of
Lydden Hill and wave.”
EH]
“Once, as he was
passing Coxhill, there
was a loud bang and
piece of his car flew into
the air and landed in a
turnip field.
“I was on the point of
picking it up, when the
Count stopped me as it
was sizzling hot. It was
tnllten that he offered us a
C Mallet in Somerset to say
that her father, Frederick
 had been asked
by the Count to accom-
pany him on tour in
France. 
Her mother didn’t
wanthimto go andsohe
didn’t fortunately 
Louis’ last doomed race.
Mr M. Bones, of Wife
of Bath Hill, Canterbury,
sent‘ us a clipping from
our sister paper the
Kentish Gazette, and two
photos of staff at Bligh’s.
The cutting, from the
Kentish Gazette, April 2,
1921, records one of
Chitly I’s early races.