Lot details
Registration No: GHU 556
Chassis No: 131010
Mot Expiry: None

Despite being something of a badge engineering exercise, the Sunbeam-Talbot 10hp was promoted as `Britain's Most Exclusive Light Car' upon its August 1938 launch. A product of the Rootes Group, the newcomer was based on a modified Hillman Aero Minx chassis complete with all-round semi-elliptic leaf-sprung suspension and four-wheel drum brakes. Quoted as developing some 38bhp @ 4,500rpm, its 1185cc four-cylinder sidevalve engine boasted an alloy cylinder head and was allied to four-speed manual transmission (the latter incorporating synchromesh on 2nd, 3rd and 4th gears). While most were supplied as saloons, the model could also be had as a Whittingham & Mitchell Tourer or Carbodies Drophead Coupe. Reintroduced after World War Two, the Sunbeam-Talbot Ten remained in production until June 1948 by which time some 10,973 had rolled off the production line. Though, today survivors are comparatively few and far between.

Finished in primrose yellow over black with khaki upholstery, this particular example has been on static display as part of a private Lake District collection for many years. Although reported to have been driven into the collection building under its own power, the Sunbeam-Talbot is currently a non-runner and will require recommissioning prior to road use. Sold strictly as viewed it is accompanied by a buff logbook, expired road tax disc (May 1976) and V5 / V5C Registration Documents.