Talbot-Lago T120 Baby – 1936

French registration title Sold without contrôle technique

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Founded in 1903 by Adolphe Clément-Bayard and Charles Chetwynd under the name Clément-Talbot, the company was bought by Darracq after the First World War.

The manufacturer only became Talbot in 1922. In 1935, after the bankruptcy of Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq, Italian engineer Anthony Lago took control of the French branch of the company, while the English branch, bought by Rootes, became Sunbeam Talbot, then Sunbeam.

Due to the economic crisis, Talbot had to offer more modest models. The T120 was one of the first models developed under the authority of Anthony Lago, who took over as head of Talbot in 1934.

It featured a new engine designed in collaboration with engineer Walter Becchia (who would later be credited with the twin-cylinder engine in the Citroën 2CV!), a 3-litre 6-cylinder overhead valve engine developing 90 bhp at a time when passenger cars were capped at 40 bhp, and a ne...