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.
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!
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...
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
11/10!
A fascinating and fantastic documentary.
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.
Who says you need a new car every couple of years
Enjoyed the story
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!
I am half Talbot, my Mother's a Talbot.... from the French line
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...
Is there more to the story? I enjoyed this immensely and I'd like to know more about the Swiss engineer.
Interesting car company.
I didn't know Talbot was founded by a frenchman and was only selling french cars at the beginning
I am half Talbot... my Mother's ancestor came to Canada, in the 1600s; we ARE related to the man who named these cars. (His branch stayed in France)
My surname is Talbot . I have frequently been asked if I am related to the Shrewsbury Talbot's.
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
@@englishmaninfrance661 I grew up with a family full of them ;)
@@englishmaninfrance661 If you ever visit Quebec, go to the cemetery in the village of St Gervais... you'll find a few generations of them 👻