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acutely aware of their place in the social strata: you have to get up to hereditary lords who regard the current royals as nouveau-riche foreign nobodies before you find Englishmen happy with their social status. Oddly, successful East End barrow-boys are also socially secure, although their children can become hideous snobs.
Fleming would have been impressed with the original Le Mans Bentleys: he went to Eton, so some of his chums probably drove them in anger. So I would contend that 1950s Bond drove a
