![]() ![]() I have happily read and listened to Pratchett's books over and over again. On the post office roof if an old pigeon loft which has been converted into a clacks tower by the Smoking Gnu. Tiddles walks along an upper balcony on his daily routine through the post office. Inside the post office Stanley Howler, Head of Stamps, and Miss Iodine Maccalariat help customers at the counter. Postal Inspector Tolliver Groat can be found sorting through mail next to the now defunct mail sorting machine. Watching on is Commander Sam Vimes, head of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, along with officers Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson and Sergeant Angua von Überwald. Lord Havelock Vetinari (Patrician of Ankh-Morpork), Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully (head of Unseen University) and Reacher Gilt follow the race with the aid of the University's omniscope. Pump cheer him on as Otto Chriek, the vampire iconographer for the Ankh-Morpork Times, captures the moment. Miss Adora Belle Dearheart and the golem Mr. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig is ready to take on Reacher Gilt and the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company in an exciting race to determine who can deliver a message to Genua faster. The 1933 Bentley combined a modified 20/25-hp engine with a Rolls-Royce chassis to create the Rolls-Bentley, and its engine upgrades included redesigned manifolds, increased compression, and twin carburettors.Welcome to the Ankh-Morpork Post Office based on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld book Going Postal. Rolls-Royce’s acquisition of the Bentley made for an unusual pairing: Rolls-Royce was about elegance, luxury, silence, whereas the noisier Bentley had been a car for “the Bentley boy,” a slightly different, more macho customer. purchased Bentley in 1931 when the company was forced into liquidation by the Great Depression, and Rolls debuted the new Bentley 3½ litre in 1933. Gaiman explained that the ’26 Bentley just sounded right to him, but, it “was in the days before Google.” As it turned out, a 1933 Bentley was closer to what Pratchett and Gaiman had envisioned. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the novel, Crowley drives a 1926 Bentley, rather than the ‘33 in the TV adaptation. To celebrate the upcoming release of Good Omens Season 2, I am releasing the build instructions for the 1933 Bentley! ![]()
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