Flying Lady (TV Series)
Flying Lady may be: * Flying Lady (TV series), a British 1987–1989 TV series * Spirit of Ecstasy, the hood ornament on Rolls-Royce cars * a monorail system by Pelham Park and City Island Railway The Pelham Park and City Island Railway was a short street railway in the Bronx, New York City, which connected City Island with the Bartow station of the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad on the mainland. The line existed from 1884 to 1 ...

Flying Lady (TV Series)
Flying Lady may be: * Flying Lady (TV series), a British 1987–1989 TV series * Spirit of Ecstasy, the hood ornament on Rolls-Royce cars * a monorail system by Pelham Park and City Island Railway The Pelham Park and City Island Railway was a short street railway in the Bronx, New York City, which connected City Island with the Bartow station of the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad on the mainland. The line existed from 1884 to 1 ...

Spirit Of Ecstasy
''The Spirit of Ecstasy'' is the bonnet ornament sculpture on Rolls-Royce cars. It is in the form of a woman leaning forwards with her arms outstretched behind and above her. Billowing cloth runs from her arms to her back, resembling wings. History ''The Whisper'', precursor to the ''Spirit of Ecstasy'' The first Rolls-Royce motorcars did not feature radiator mascots; they simply carried the Rolls-Royce emblem. When John, 2nd Baron Montagu commissioned his friend, sculptor Charles Robinson Sykes, who worked in London under the nobleman's patronage, to sculpt a personal mascot for the bonnet of his 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, Sykes chose Eleanor Velasco Thornton as his model. Sykes originally crafted a figurine of her in fluttering robes, having placed one forefinger against her lips – to symbolize the secret of the love affair between Thornton and Montagu. The figurine was consequently named ''The Whisper'' and is on display at the National Motor Museum in Beauli ...
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