Sunbeam Mk III

This is one of a variety of cars that were in the Pallot Museum in Jersey that we visited in May 2013.

It's a Sunbeam Mk III, a car that was produced between 1954 and 1957 and was the final version of a series of cars that started with the Sunbeam Talbot 90 of 1948, the 'Talbot' being dropped for this model. Following on from the Sunbeam Talbot 90 Mk II and Mk IIA, the MkIII can be identified by the enlarged air intakes on each side of the radiator grille and the three small portholes just below the bonnet and near to the windscreen on each side of the car, though these are largely obscured by the wing mirror on this photograph. The Sunbeam Mk III was powered by a 4-cylinder inline 2,267cc engine, and it was good enough for one of the cars to win the 1955 Monte Carlo Rally in the hands of Per Malling and Gunnar Fadum.