1939 Sunbeam-Talbot Four Litre

1939 Sunbeam-Talbot Four Litre in Cast a Dark Shadow, Movie, 1955

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin:

Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Author	Message
Lateef ◊ 2012-03-20 20:53
chris40 ◊ 2012-03-20 21:45	Jensen 4-Litre, 1948? http://www.british-steel.org/brochure/four_litre/4litre.htm -- Last edit: 2012-03-20 21:49:42
dsl ◊ 2012-03-20 22:07	Can't find a picture with such rounded side windows, but front looks good against eg Link to "www.jensencars.org" . Seems only 18 or 19 made, code [PW] for Post-War.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2012-03-20 23:26	1939 Sunbeam-Talbot 4 litre. Link to "www.google.co.uk"
chris40 ◊ 2012-03-21 15:02	Oh, right. Do you know, not only have I never consciously seen one, I never even knew it existed.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2012-03-21 16:56	It wasn't exactly a mass production effort at 229 examples built, neither was the ex-Talbot works at Barlby Rd Kensington in the forefront of motor car factories, so lack of knowledge of the car is no great sin! What it does prove is that even pre-war the Rootes Group were masters of badge engineering, in this case using Humber Super Snipe parts including the 4086 cc flat head engine that was also used in Commer trucks. The war killed off both this and the smaller three litre version, otherwise more may have been sold. The Rootes parts-bin engineering was a bit agricultural after the niceties of the Roesch Talbots, but the cars were cheaper to make and pretty rugged. -- Last edit: 2012-03-21 17:02:29