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[brickyard]

Hi,

 

I have a question about the T26C cars. What was the correct name of the cars?

 

"Talbot-Lago T26C" or "Talbot T26C"?

I know Anthony Lago was the owner of the company, but officialy his name was on the name's car?

 

thanks

[Oneandhalf]

[RCH]

My understanding, I may be badly wrong, is that the name Talbot Lago was used to distinguish the company from the now totally unconnected British side of the old Talbot company. Just as the pre war sports cars became Darracqs when they raced in the TT.

[Allan Lupton]

The Talbot-Lago name was pretty official as you can see in this photo of an engine:

[Lola5000]

When my father owned one in the 50s ,my mother called it "Big Tablet " if that helps...ducks.

[Peter Morley]

The French Talbot company went bust in 1934.

Antonio Lago (Italian, who was a director) bought the company (management buyout from the receivers) so they became Talbot - Lago around 1935.

[robjohn]

Officially, the T26C was a Talbot-Lago, as seen on the rocker cover shown above.

In its day, though, it was often called Lago-Talbot. That's the way I've thought of it since my boyhood, so I was relieved when a few years ago I found a 'Cars in Profile' booklet by Cyril Posthumus titled The 4½-litre Lago-Talbot, in which he said they bore the name Talbot-Lago but "colloquially the order was more often reversed to Lago-Talbot. Not that it mattered; the chief progenitor, 'Tony' Lago, was happy either way..."

Although Lago and his backers were owners from 1935, I think the company remained Automobiles Talbot.
Rob B

 

[D-Type]

I have always thought of it as a Talbot-Lago - because that's what was on the baseplate of my Dinky Toy.  And, I think, used by Gregor Grant in my Boy's Book of Motor Sport