Talbot 105

Key facts

Year

1934
Country

Great Britain
Capacity

2,969cc
Cylinders

6
Valves

Overhead
Output

100hp at 4,500rpm
Performance

85mph, 0-50mph,16 seconds
Price new

£795
Owner

Montagu Collection
Manufacturer

Clement-Talbot Ltd

The Talbot 105 is considered by many to be one of the finest cars of the 1930s. Available with a variety of saloon and tourer bodies, the 105 was powered by an enlarged version of Talbot’s smooth six-cylinder engine, coupled to a pre-select gearbox. They were excellent touring cars, and also competed with success at Brooklands, Le Mans and in the Alpine Trial. The four-door saloon body fitted to this car is by James Young Ltd of Bromley.

Talbot’s talented Swiss-born chief engineer Georges Roesch saved the ailing company with the successful14/45 model of 1926. This set the pattern for a range of Roesch designed cars over the next ten years. Sadly, financial difficulties led to the collapse of the owning Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq combine and Talbot, along with Sunbeam, was sold to the Rootes Group in 1935.