Sir Topham Hatt's Car
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Sir Topham Hatt uses his car to go to places when the engines are busy or to see what the engines are doing. It once caused trouble when he drove it into a pothole, but he thinks it is very reliable and would not want to get to work in any other vehicle.
Despite its usual blue colour, the car has taken on many forms throughout the years. It was blue in the Railway Series, but consisted of two different models in the television series. In jigsaws and other merchandise, the car is yellow, except for one where it is red. The plausible explanation is that the Fat Controller has more than one car.
In all cases, his car is presented as a typical vehicle of the 1940s. It is either loosely based on a Jowett Javelin or a Rover.
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Livery
- The car is painted "Hatt blue".
Trivia
- Sir Topham Hatt's car is currently on display in Canada at Nitrogen Studios.
- The car's model changed in the fifth season, making it more similar to its Railway Series counterpart.
- In the same season, the car is seen moving on-screen for the first time in Cranky Bugs. This allowed it to play roles in later episodes, such as Lady Hatt's Birthday Party, while it was previously only used as a background element.
- Its Wooden Railway, Take-Along, and Take-n-Play models are convertibles.
- In the Thomas and Percy and the Dragon book, Sir Topham Hatt's car is based on a Ford Model T.
- In the My Thomas Story Library books, Sir Topham Hatt's car is based on a Bentley Continental S2.
Merchandise
- ERTL (discontinued)
- Wooden Railway (yellow, discontinued; blue)
- Take-Along (discontinued)
- Take-n-Play
- Bandai Tecs (blue and yellow; discontinued)
- De Agostini
- Wind-up Trains
- My First Thomas
- Nakayoshi (discontinued)
Gallery
The car with Sir Topham Hatt and Edward in Troublesome Engines
The car in Trouble in the Shed
Sir Topham Hatt inside the car
The car seen in Best Friends
Sir Topham Hatt with his car in Creaky Cranky
The messy car chasing Thomas in Slippy Sodor
The car on a flatbed in Charlie and Eddie
The car with a funnel on its roof
ERTL packaging illustration
Merchandise Gallery
NIB ERTL model
The original yellow Wooden Railway model
The reintroduced Wooden Railway model
Wooden Railway Slippy Sodor edition
Take-n-Play
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Bandai Tecs
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Take-Along
My First Thomas
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