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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

Happy Compromise Of Sports And Saloon

By OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT

One of the most attractive-looking saloons on the road, the Sunbeam- Talbot proves, on closer inspection and handling, to be not only stylish but also a fast little car which combines splendid top-gear perform- ance with the sure-footedness (so to speak) and responsiveness that one comes to associate with the sports car pure and simple.

passengers sitting, almost

without difficulty..

like

It comes in two sizes, the "Ten" tends to be masked by the rear, rear (or 1.2 Hire) and the "Two-view mirror which sticks up from ever the back axle, the rear doors are somewhat restricted by the litre" (or 14 horsepower), The the top of the facia. bly and dimensions are almost The Instruments, which are in wheel arches, but one can enter leave the compartment the same in both models, but the the centre of the facta and are and bigger engine not only gives in not masked by the steering wheel, proved performance and a slight are calibrated in both the British

The present tendency is to have ly higher cruising speed but, and metric systems. There are

which fixed windscreen, but fortunale- of two large dials, one strangely enough, manages to do

with no percepiible increase in contains the amps., fuel and all for those who have to drive Petrol consumption. The engine,gauges and the other the speedon the summer in places

resisted the too. is smoother, for the added meter, trip and mileage metres Hing Kong and Singapore, Sun- burses under the aluminium cyand a small clock, The traflen-beam-Talbot have

follow suit. An tempintion to iinder head mean that one çantor and dipping switches for the get performance without having headlamps are on the boss of the opening windscreen and a bon- net louvre, plus a sliding roof. to tune the works to as high a steering wheel, pitch as is required on the "Ten." Ash-trays are provided for all make for cooler and therefore The result is a thoroughly lik-four passengers, and these sitting more pleasant motoring during able car, which can woolle along in the back are further looked those torrid days and nights when seems to have como ut a steady, 10 miles an hour in after by both site and traffic, accelerate quite amartly

(folding) arm-reats. Other prac when occasion demands and pulitical features are pockets on both strongly and without faltering up front doors, rubber mats on the all normal hills to be found in the floor of the front compartment New Territories,

(which is the more often used of the two) and ordinary carpets in the rear compartment.

Light And Airy

centre

nir the

straight from the hottest corner

a Turkish bath.

The Sunbeam-Talbot is not a cheup car. It is well-built, well- and so planned, meant to last

of the So far as comfort is concerned,

stand up to hard driving. In addition, it is one the Sunbeam-Talbot 2-litre makes

smartest cars on the road and for no pretension at providing the

once one can quote a car's own Mouling-on-clouds" springing of

It is offelally The interior of the car is light advertisements with approval-" Its larger cousins,

the Sunbeam Talbot classed as a sports solton, which and airy, thanks to an ingenious Wherever

apillarless system in the rear see goes it is the centre of attraction at means it expects to run

the higher speed than normal-and tan of the body which defies our......its swiftness in traffic, its wow that snooth four hates being powers of description but really sparkling performance on back!-and to corner rapidly and does work, even though it looks main open road, and its elegance With the all mark it,as an exclusive car." with

minimum of body roll or as though it shouldn't! wandering. The springing therefore, on the firm side,

13,

At the same time, it is by no

meuns harsh. Sunbeam-Talbot retain the system of rigid axles and half-cliptic sprigs. but

careful plunning has resulted in a anost effective compromise be tween the requirements of the sports car driver and those of the salon owner.

Quick Response

So far as rond-handling is con- cerned, 1hc Sunbeam-Talbot seems to respond to the slightest wish of the driver with the doel- lity of a bicycle. Varying sur- faces and road cambers have nɔ appreciable effect on the steer- ing, which has * useful self- centring action. A driver whe

goes into acorner much fuster Than he should will And the car tends to oversteer alightly when body-roll sets In-but it remains completely controllable,

Somewhat surprisingly un sparts saloon, the gear-changes prove to be on the slow side. The clutch has to be pressed well hone and there is an appreciable delay in changing both up and

however, down; that,

Is the penalty one must expect to pay always Arst-class, for a really

In fair- synchromesh gearbox,

ness to Sunbeam-Talbot, one-must- say that the car has auch en amazing top-gear performance that are hardly ever need cali on

the lower ratios, and then only

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Data

MAKE AND MODEL:-- Sunbeam Talbot 4-door sports saloon with sliding roof.

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• ENGINE: Four-cylinder (1,944 cc.) side-valve; de- velops 50 BIP at 3,800 rpm: compression ratio, 84 to оле Stromberg down- draught carburettor, with automatic choke; mechani- cal fael-pump and by-pass oll filter.

TRANSMISSION: --- Four- speed, synchromesh; Ratios. 4.44, 8,62, 10.97 and 16.83 to one; Borg and Beck clutch: Hardy Spicer propellor shaft; spirat bevel "final drive.

Half-

SUSPENSION: elliptics front and rear.

BRAKES: Lockheed h7- draulic,

drutas.

with

10-inch

STEERING 'GEAR:-Bar-

man Douglas

Worm and of steer- left

nut: 2-1/3 tarns wheel, lock to lock; and right hand locks, $7 jeet farning circle.

TIRES AND WHEELS Dunlop 5.25 x 16 tirea on diso wheels, Tire pressUTES, 26 lb. front, 28 lb. rear.

DIMENSIONS: Wheelbase, 8 ft. 2 in., overall length. 13 ft. 3 in, overall width, 6 ft. overall height, 4 ft 11 In.: ground clearance, 6 LOCAL AGENTS: — GII- man & Co.

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The Sunbeam-Talbot which is the subject of owe Motoring Correspondent's article

this week.

New

Team Of Racing Cars

NEW FACTORY Latest Morris

Birfield. Industries have pur-

chased a factory at Bridgwater Venture Somerset, which will be occupia

A preliminary announcement! concerning the

now Morris.

ed by the Salisbury Transmis- sion Co., Ltd., hypoid bevel rear axle manufacturers. Although Commercial Saurer Oiler all the plant and equipment ut chassis has aroused more than Developments present housed in the Salisbury ordinary interest in view of One other difficulty encounter Ltd, are to build a new team company's factory at Witton, the importance being attached

in circumstances where a snappy

change is unnecessary,

Automobile

ed during the test was in engag- of British racing cars for the Birmingham, will ultimately be to this type of vehicle as a re ing first or second with the cur

situation.

at rest. On checking this point international Grand Prix races, transferred to Bridgwater, let-sult of the present economic with several satisfed Sunbeam- the aim being to produce a ters should be addressed to Wit Talbot owners-and we were basic design which will permit ton for the time being. amazed to and we knew at least of "longterm development with-

five-we discovered that this was out scrapping. The design BUS SERVICE

being used. Two of them, report-

In

This is a special export 162. inch wheelbase normal control drive, and will be available, it

probably due to too thick an will include a 16-cylinder en- A through express bus service model for left or right-hand ed that on shifting to a slightly gina-produced in co-operation between Hangthow and fokan-18 hoped, with the four-cylinder by the petrol engine by the end of lighter grade th19 dimculty with Rolls-Royce, and alterna-shan has been provided.

Residents' Associs this year, and with the oil en-. vanished,

tive systems of four-wheel in-Mokanthan

be tion. The bus will leave Teang gine early in 1948. Smooth Running dependent auspension will

Tooling up for production is The engine must be one of the tried. The cars will be known chow Hotel, 182 Yin-Tse Road, emcothest fours production as B.R.M.British Racing Mo-

in Mokanahan at 9.30 am Commercial factory at Adder- The return bus will leave Mekan.

at ley Park, Birmingham, under Ing lustiness in the lower gear and built by the men who deshan at 1.30 p.m. ratios, but in top is as quiet and signed the famous E.R.A. rac- Hangchwo's Shanghai-Bangchow. the agreement now being con- effortless as bay normal alx of ing car before the war. "Apart Nanking Railway Station at 3.80 cluded with the Saurer equal horse-power.. fully run-in and properly tuned from making the outstanding p.m. engine would probably bear performance of United King- favourable comparison with much dom cars even

It makes itself felt with encourag-tors--and are being designed row, daily at 7.30 am, " now' proceeding at the Morris-]

Indeed.

more widely

bigger sixes of the American known overscas, the project school,

should also supply much im-

pretence

Seating is provided for four portant technical Information

18 to assist in the development of:

British cars generally.

passengers, and no made at accommodating more. The front seats are individually adjustable, and there is a fali

The Controller of Suppllica in though not generous, amount of footroom for all four passengers. Cyprus has announced that im- The driving position is a comport licences for both British. fortable one, with a spring-spoke and American cars will be great. steering wheel which is adjust able for rake, and excellent vision ly reduced on account of the over the long bonnet. A driver economic crisis. Petrol' will in of normal height will and the future be distributed under Cov near-side wing visible, though it'ernment control.

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