1939 Talbot Lago T150C

This car competed in the Bill Phillips Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's a 1939 Talbot Lago T150C and was driven at this meeting by the owner, John Guyatt, seen here at Druids corner. The only other detail about the car in the programme of the event is that it had a 4 litre engine. The Talbot company had gone into receivership in the 1930s during the Great Depression and Antonio Lago, who had been appointed managing  director, bought the company from the receiver in 1936 and renamed it Talbot-Lago. The engines developed by the company for its sporting models were 6-cylinder inline 2,996cc and 3,996cc units, the T150C being powered by the larger of these engines.