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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive |
| Predecessor | Clément-Talbot |
| Founded | 1938 |
| Founders | William and Reginald Rootes |
| Defunct | 1954 |
| Headquarters | London , UK |
| Products | Automobiles |
| Brands | Sunbeam Talbot |
| Parent | Rootes Group |
Sunbeam-Talbot Limited was a British motor manufacturing business. It built upmarket sports-saloon versions under the parenthood of Rootes Group cars from 1938 to 1954. Its predecessor Clément-Talbot Limited had made Talbot automobiles from 1902 to 1935.
Clément-Talbot was bought by Rootes brothers in January 1935 and re-organised to make Rootes Group cars also branded Talbot.[1]
In 1938 after some years of consideration the Rootes brothers dropped plans to make large luxury cars branded Sunbeam, added the name Sunbeam to Talbot and put the extra name on both the cars built in Kensal Green and the company building them.
After the Second World War Sunbeam-Talbot production was resumed in London then in Spring 1946 it was moved to Rootes' new factory at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire and Clément-Talbot's North Kensington works became a Rootes administration and service centre.
- ^ Sunbeam History on Sunbeam.org.ar