Registration No: GT 7914Chassis No: 7007PMOT: Exempt

Understood to have been the Olympia Motor Exhibition car for Weymann's Motor Bodies
Owned by Capt.

H.

B.

Davie-Thornhill, one-time Sheriff of Derbyshire, from 1934 to 1964
Delightful history file with receipts and correspondence with the Sunbeam Talbot Darracq Register dating back to the 1960s

That the 1920s was the golden age of Sunbeam is a claim with which few would disagree.

A part of the S.T.D.

combine with Talbot and Darracq since 1920, director and chief engineer Louis Coatalen spent lavishly on Sunbeam’s racing programme, with good results – the period from 1922 to 1924 was one of tremendous success in Grands Prix, while hill-climb records were set later in the decade, but the big news was Sunbeam’s Land Speed Record feats, most famously Malcolm Campbell’s 150.87mph in 1925 and Henry Segrave’s 203.79mph in 1927.
On the road car front, all models had been overhead-valve since 1922 and four-wheel braking was introduced i...