Incredible footage and amazing documentary on a fundamental part of British motoring history. I have learnt a lot today watching this. Thankyou for showing it.
Interesting! My line comes from the Irish Malahide branch. How far back have you been able to go? And what information is out there for the French branch? I’ve been curious about them.
Late 60s our bread man made his rounds in "half a Talbot car". The front end was removed so it could be horse drawn around our town of Murray Bridge in South Australia...
In the late '70s the Talbot Horizon platform was the basis of the Chrysler K Car & the Chrysler minivan. The two models that resurrected the dying US giant under the management genius Lee Iacoca whom Henry Ford II had hounded out of his company!
Though as an American who began driving in 1992, I must add that the k-car was and is NOT terribly well thought of. Though at the time, it’s quite true that they were a huge boon to Chrysler.
We are, the Talbot clan spread all over western Europe with the Norman conquest (We are descended from intermarriage of the Vikings and the French, in Normandie, .... Salut Cousin!) >>French Canadian here, my Mother is a Talbot.
Indeed we are descended from Vikings , but , funnly enough, in my 69 years of wndering the globe I've never actualy met another Talbot 😎@@shoknifeman2mikado135
You likely are, if distantly. In know for my part, a Richard Talbot left Ireland during the Confederate Wars, a part of Cromwells depredations. He became a Quaker, added a second T to his last name, and because a prosperous farmer.
