Authors: Roger Moore
Bond On Bond (16 page)
Prince Andrew was given a fully operational scale model of a DB5 for his sixth birthday.
The famous scene in which Q demonstrates all the car’s gadgets to Bond was not originally in the script. Desmond finished his day’s filming and returned home. Cubby called him. He’d been thinking: demonstrating the gadgets to Bond would surely heighten the audience’s excitement to see them in action. As the set was still in place, would Desmond come in for a second day of filming?
Gadgets fitted for
Goldfinger
include …
Front-firing Browning .30-calibre machine guns behind the front indicators
Retractable tyre-slashing blades concealed in the rear wheel hub caps
Radio telephone in the driver’s door panel
Radar scanner and tracking screen hidden behind car radio speaker
Passenger ejector seat
Oil slick spray hidden within rear light cluster
Caltrop ejector device hidden within rear light cluster
Smoke screen from exhaust pipes
Front and rear extending rams
Gun cabinet under driver’s seat
Bulletproof windscreen and rising bulletproof rear screen
Revolving number plates, valid all countries, naturally:
BMT 216A (UK) 4711-EA-62 (France) LU 6789 (Switzerland)
Special-effects engineer Bert Luxford with his adapted BSA motorcycle for
Thunderball
.
