Talbot-Lago T150 Tourer par Chapron – 1934

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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.
Born in Venice in 1893 and an engineer from the Milan Polytechnic, he gave the company a new impetus, based in particular on the principle that the prestige and technical expertise acquired in racing could be applied to passenger cars.

The T150, an entirely new model presented at the 1934 Motor Show, perfectly represented the result of this approach.

In June 1934, the first three T150s, chassis n...