Car Badges

Here are photographs I took of the badges of 6 of the cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza

1925 Bugatti T35T

1948 Talbot Lago T26

1936 ERA R12B

1959 Ferrari 246 Dino

1938 Maserati 4CM

1950 Talbot Lago T26 GS

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the Cheshire Building Society Allcomers Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.

It’s Richard Pilkington in his 1950 4,482cc 6-cylinder inline Talbot Lago T26 GS with the offset driving position which meant it could compete in Grand Prix or Sports Car races. It's chassis #110057 and is the car with which Louis Rosier and Juan Manuel Fangio took part in the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour race, retiring after 9 hours. It was then given an all-enveloping sports car body and ended up in the hands of Georges Grignard in 1953, but after an accident at Montlhéry in 1954 in which his co-driver Guy Mairesse was killed, Grignard locked the wrecked car away in his garage. Richard Pilkington bought the wreckage in 1958 and after racing the car in its sports car form for some years he eventually restored it to its original cycle-wing body form, racing it at historic race meetings in both sports car and vintage GP races.

1950 Talbot Lago T26C

This is a photograph I took at Luffield corner during the Chopard 100-Mile Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's Belgian driver François d'Huart in a 1950 Talbot Lago T26C which has a 6-cylinder inline 4,562cc unsupercharged engine and is in the yellow racing colours of Belgium. An online site about the Talbot Lago T26  says this about the car:

 

Talbot T26C-DA [110 053]: Built in 1950 using parts from '110 003' and raced for the works by Martin, Chaboud and Giraud-Cabantous in 1950 then by Rosier as a private entry in 1951. Driven by Trintignant for Ecurie Rosier in 1952, then Giraud-Cabantous 1952-53. Owned by Marceau Hauret 1955 and Houdayer (Paris) 1981. Raced from 1987-2000 by François d'Huart (Belgium) as '100 105'.

Talbot Lago T26C

These two cars competed in the HGPCA Pre-1952 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

Car number 4 is the 1948 Talbot Lago T26C of Tony Bianchi which has a 6-cylinder inline 4,482cc unsupercharged engine. The Talbot Lagos took part in the 1948 (pre-World Championship) Grand Prix races but were generally outnumbered and outclassed by the Ferraris and Maseratis, although Louis Rosier won the Belgian Grand Prix and Louis Chiron the French Grand Prix in one of these cars. Tony Bianchi’s Talbot-Lago T26C is chassis #110 008 which was Philippe Etancelin's car in 1949 and then passed to Jean Achard in November 1950. Achard moved to Brazil, taking the car, and sold it there to Pinheiro Pires who raced it in Brazil from 1951 to 1954. The car came to the UK via Colin Crabbe in the 1980s and then via other UK owners to Tony Bianchi in the 1990s. On the left, car number 1 is Richard Pilkington's 1950 Talbot T26 GS, one that had been adapted to also run in sports car events. It's chassis #110057, the car with which Louis Rosier and Juan Manuel Fangio competed in the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour race, but retired in the 9th hour after completing 92 laps. It was then given an all-enveloping sports car body and ended up in the hands of Georges Grignard in 1953, but after an accident at Montlhéry in 1954 in which his co-driver Guy Mairesse was killed, Grignard locked the wrecked car away in his garage. Richard Pilkington bought the wreckage in 1958 and after racing the car in its sports car form for some years he eventually restored it to its original cycle-wing body form, racing it at historic race meetings in both sports car and vintage GP races.

1950 Talbot Lago T26

This was one of the competitors in the HGPCA Pre-61 Front Engine GP Cars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1950 Talbot Lago T26 of Richard Pilkington, chassis number 110057, a car that was driven in the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour race by Juan Manuel Fangio and Louis Rosier, but retired after 9 hours with a ruptured oil tank. The Talbot Lago T26 had a 4,482cc unsupercharged engine, and detachable wings and lighting equipment so that it could also be used in the 4½ litre Formula One Grand Prix racing of that period.

Talbot Lago T26

Although this car bears a number 1 it was actually number 17 in the programme of the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003, where it took part in the VSCC Ron Flockhart Trophy race.

This is Richard Pilkington's 1950 4,482cc straight-6 Talbot Lago T26 with the offset driving position which meant it could compete in Grand Prix or Sports Car races. It's chassis #110057 and is the car with which Louis Rosier and Juan Manuel Fangio took part in the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour race, retiring after 9 hours. On 21 September 2017 I showed a photograph of this car that I took at Donington Park in 2006 and gave a bit more of its history.