French Edwardian Cars

These two cars took part in the 4-Lap Handicap Race for Edwardian Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

This car is listed in the programme of the event as Richard Black's 9,500cc 1906/11 Clement Special

This car is listed as John Brydon's 9,000cc 1903/10 CGV Special

A note in the programme about the race says this about the two cars:

 'There are two French cars on the entry list for this race, and both are powered by Simplex T-head side-valve engines of nine litres or more. Richard Black's 1906 Clement and the 1903 CGV (Charron-Giradot-Voigt) of John Brydon are fitted with these American engines because the original units are not available. The CGV has a two-seat Grand Prix-type body modelled on that fitted to Giradot's car in the 1905 French Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials.'

The DVLA record shows the Clement as a 1906 Clement Talbot, a company that originally sold Clement Bayard cars which had been built in France. The company later became STD Motors (Sunbeam Talbot Darracq), then simply Talbot, and eventually Sunbeam Talbot.

I've been able to find out very little about the CGV, but on 12 August 2017 I showed a photograph of another CGV that I'd taken at Donington Park in 2007.