Chitty Chitty Bang Bang designer's huge kinetic sculpture up for grabs

Eight-metre-long work which imagines whimsical train journey should fetch six figures

An enormous kinetic sculpture of a whimsical train journey made by the inventor who designed for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is to appear at auction in London.

Rowland Emett is most famous for designing the magical flying car and madcap contraptions made by the character of Caractacus Potts, played by Dick Van Dyke in the 1968 film.